I think that "new" logo is easier for creating (and translating). That's why I chose "new" variant of logo for uk.wiktionary logo. And community supported me.
2009/3/25 Cary Bass <[email protected]> > Hi all, > > The two largest Wiktionary projects (English and French) have two > completely different logos. [1], [2] > > The reason for this, from what I understand, is that a vote was taken > place about the logo fr.wiktionary currently has, on meta [3]; which > the English Wiktionary community chose not to be bound by, because > they, as a community, disagreed with the outcome. > > I understand that there are complaints that new logo has elements too > closely resembling Scrabble pieces, or are otherwise too cartooned to > some. The "new" logo does maintain some visual identity as a project > logo, while the "classic" logo isn't really a logo at all, and > diverges wildly from project to project. Of the top ten Wiktionary > projects, four of them use the new version, while 6 of them use some > variation of the classic version: > > fr: new > en: classic > tr: new > vi: new > ru: classic (a variation which little resembles the original) > io: classic (English version) > el: new > zh: classic (divergent variation) > pl: classic (divergent variation) > fi: classic (English version) > > As a whole, I seem to remember that Wiktionary is the second most > visited site of the Foundation's websites, and I really do think it > should be appropriate that the site should reflect a common visual > identity, one that the classic logo does a poor job of creating. The > new logo, however, met with rather heavy resistance in, at the very > least, the English Wiktionary community. > > I do, rather strongly, believe that the Wiktionary identity needs to > be squared away, having some poll in general inclusive of, yet binding > of all Wiktionary projects, and then if that fails, starting the > process again, and succeeding to foment an individual logo like the > recent successful Wikibooks logo revamp. > > Cary > > [1] <http://en.wiktionary.org> > [2] <http://fr.wiktionary.org> > [3] <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary/logo> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiktionary-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiktionary-l > -- Анатолій Гончаров mailto:[email protected] ICQ: 364-176-156 _______________________________________________ Wiktionary-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiktionary-l
