[Foundation-l] [Wiktionary-l] Wiktionary logo

Wed Nov 14 12:47:01 UTC 2007

I think this should be an important issue. It can be confusing for
people visiting the website in multiple languages. All projects should
have an uniform logo.

-- Hay / Husky

On Nov 13, 2007 10:51 PM, Dmcdevit <dmcdevit at cox.net> wrote:
> Erik Moeller wrote:
> > We currently seem to be using at least two different logos for Wiktionary:
> > http://vi.wiktionary.org/
> > http://en.wiktionary.org/
> >
> > Has there been a community decision which one is to be preferred?
> >
> >
> Erik,
>
> There was a global (not Wiktionary) vote many months ago that decided
> for the scrabble logo, which had very little support among actual
> Wiktionarians, and was largely ignored. There is no standard logo. Some
> projects adopted the scrabble logo anyway, but I can't speak for them.
> Some of it may been from the mistaken belief that this was some
> "official" logo mandated by the Foundation. For various reasons, not
> just the copyright issue, en.wikt has very little love for that logo in
> my experience--which is not to say that the current one is popular.
> Basically, it's in permanent limbo, and most of us have returned to our
> regular work and stopped bothering about it.
>
> Dominic
>
>
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