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The Wiktionary logo will be chosen using approval voting. The vote will last from September 8 to September 21. You may vote for as many logos as you like, but cannot vote against a logo. The top three to five ideas will move to the second stage. Anyone may vote, but must use either a Meta account, or provide a link to their accounts on another project.

At this stage in the voting, only choose the idea which you prefer; the exact variant will be chosen in the second stage of voting. Votes are tallied in the "Votes" subsections underneath each of the 19 proposals on this page. (See the table of contents below, or the Gallery.) To leave a vote, write # {{support}} in one or more of these sections, followed by an optional message, followed by your signature or a link to your userpage on another project.

Discussion

Logo requirements

For all logo discussion and submissions, please keep in mind the following requirements:

• All logo submissions must not be licensed under GFDL but the copyright must be assigned to the Wikimedia Foundation (use {{CopyrightByWikimedia}} for uploads on Commons)

If you have any questions about the logo assignment agreement, ask me and I will forward you a copy.--BradPatrick 21:02, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

• Logos should be submitted in a vectorized version suitable for print (SVG).
• The exact fonts used should be noted in the logo description.

Greetings and good luck, wiktionary really could use a good new logo. --Elian 14:05, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

• The logo should be circular or have a circular main part, have blueish colour tones, a part which can be used independent from any language (by removing the actual local name of the project), and so on. (quote from Nightstallion)

MarzEz

Wikimedia visual identity guidlines

The logo must not breach the Wikimedia visual identity guidelines; specifically, the new logo cannot be a derivative work of the Foundation logo, and should not be able to be confused with it. Alphax 05:06, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Suggestion and Comment

Firstly, I don't know if we really need a new Wiktionary logo. I personally really like the current one, although I do sympathise with the points about it being language-specific and text-based.

If a new logo is really required, I would like to suggest one of those suggested for the Wikisource logo, [[1]]. It is ambiguous enough to easily apply to Wiktionary if needed, and it is both simple and eye-catching. Underneath could be (why is it always underneath?) the text (with IPA if you really want it) as it is in the 'definition' now. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dbmag9 (talk • contribs) . Who apologises sincerely.

Mh. I don't really like that specific execution of the logo, but I'm not opposed to its design in principle; if someone with graphics skills would execute a logo based on this one which fit in better with the others... ;) —Nightstallion (?) 07:14, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

I wasn't particularly unhappy with the existing wikt-logos, but then, if we find something better... IMHO a logo need not be symmetrical, nor must it necessarily remind of other wikimedia logos. What I like about the current logo(s) is that it contains typical dictionary-elements: typographical diversity (different fonts for different parts of an entry), abbreviations, based on text/script/writing.

How about a logo that has an (international) graphical part (e.g. a rectangular, coloured bit) and a language-specific part (e.g. the head of an entry in that language: word, Wort, mot, verbum, söz etc.) with different fonts for lemma, abbreviated grammatical info, IPA transcription, (beginning of) definition. The text part could be inside the graphical part, or seem to "grow" out of it. Font colour might be nice (but not different font colours). What d'ye think? --89.53.222.160 19:14, 13 June 2006 (UTC) (jonas from de.)

We have loads of internationally themed logos left over from the International logo contest for Wikipedia's logo, which also ended up giving us Wikimedia and MediaWiki's logos. See the full list and the finalists. --Kwekubo 20:41, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

We must distinguish those 2 things : the logo itself (symbolic, with colors etc.) which would be the same for all the projects, and below the name Wiktionary in the language of the project, followed by the slogan (different between the projects too...). So what we want to do is only the logo, that will be adapted to all the projects. - Darkdadaah 16:13, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Absolutely right. —Nightstallion (?) 18:39, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Though I do like both the former and the proposed ones, I'm not really satisfied with the stylized W, because it looks somewhat Roman-centered — I would instead suggest either juxtaposed Roman and Chinese characters (the most used worlwide, if I guess well), or simply none at all. Why not try an open book (something like #5 shown in the gallery) that would let hundreds of words of different languages escape excentrically, in both senses of the term? Korenyuk

Shin is not a W

In the proposed logos which involve examples of the letter W in other alphabets, many of them incorrectly use the hebrew letter Shin as a W. Shin is not a W, it is a Sh. The nearest the Hebrew alphabet gets to a W is with Waw. Please could everybody make sure that they use this in their logos that might involve the many Ws concept, as to anyone who knows Hebrew, a Shin among Ws would simply look odd. --Ω 21:16, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

The Galego Wiktionary logo

It would need some enormous modification, but I do like it a bit better than the current one. See http://gl.wiktionary.org/wiki/Image:Wiki.png. Ingoolemo [[User talk:Ingoolemo|^talk]] 00:04, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, but it's not too logo-esque, either... It's also very similar to the Wikibooks logo (which I would also like to change slightly). Mh. —Nightstallion (?) 05:51, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

None of the Wikimedia-projects is a book. I know that the German WM-Organization has published some Wikireaders (collections of WP-articles) in print, and that a German publisher planned to do a paper edition... Still, the projects are wikis. It's a central idea. Even if you use books only as symbol for knowledge in a logo, it somehow collides with the special characteristics of the projects. --89.53.198.197 14:26, 14 June 2006 (UTC) (jonas on .de)

Well, that may be true, but look how pretty http://fi.wiktionary.org/ is. --Connel MacKenzie 19:23, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

The 'book' meme makes me think fof something more liki a WikiBibliography project or something. I don't think it's appropriate for Wiktionary. SMcCandlish 20:51, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Clichés

One thing I'd like to avoid is the cliché "Wiktionary: Noun. 1. A dictionary..." type of logo. As Wiktionary carries words in all sorts of scripts and languages, I was thinking of possibly, something along the lines of:

W	i	k	t	i	o	n
a	r	y		维	基	词
典		श	ब्	द	क	ोष
	В	и	к	и	с	л
о	в	а	р	ь		V
i	c	t	i	o	n	a
r	i	u	m		ウ	ィ
ク	シ	ョ	ナ	リ	ー

Or, more simply

Wiktionary
维基词典
शब्दकोष
Викисловарь
ウィクショナリー

All the words spell out Wiktionary in English, Chinese, Hindi, Russian, Latin and Japanese, although other languages could be used instead (ideally I'd like one in each alphabet. They'd probably all have to been in different colours/shades of grey to stand out against each other. The letters in bold were meant to be a giant W, but they didn't come out very well, so ignore that). Smurrayinchester 17:46, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Interesting concept. It might be hard to include all alphabets/abjads/scripts, though. Daniel (‽) Check out Wikiscope! 17:50, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

I'd be *strongly* against making it so word-based. It's supposed to be a logo, not a textfile. The current Wikipedia logo manages to have a few letters and still be a logo, but that's far to much in my book... —Nightstallion (?) 18:16, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

What I'd say inresponse to you, Nightstallion, is that the reason the Wikipedia logo is a logo, & not text is because it has other things than just text, not to say I like the Wikipedia logo at all. I actually just don't like how '...The letters in bold were meant to be a giant W...'; I smell cultural imperialism........----______----

68.148.165.213 06:49, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

True...

Yeah, the logo is not the best one I've seen, needs a new one.

Agreed, though I'm not sure if now........

68.148.165.213 06:53, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

WiktionaryZ

Something to keep in mind: We won't necessarily need a logo which can be changed to reflect various language editions in the long run, as in the end, there will be a single multilingual Wiktionary (or so I understand it). —Nightstallion (?) 07:57, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Not true. WZ is a different project, not a replacement of the old Wiktionaries. Vildricianus 09:21, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Are you certain? I was under the impression that all Wiktionaries would be merged into the Ultimate Wiktionary/WiktionaryZ once it was finished (which might still take years, though). Your source? —Nightstallion (?) 16:27, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

The content of the current Wiktionaries will be imported into WiktZ but they will still exist. Greetings Pill δ 11:24, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

It is up to people and communities to decide where they want to be active. This may mean that people move over to WiktionaryZ. It may mean that some communities end their project as a Wiktionary and merge into WiktionaryZ. For me, it is up to them; WiktionaryZ is designed to host the information that exists in the Wiktionaries but it is not designed to end the Wiktionaries. GerardM 20:04, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Any logo that incorporates just a "W" can be changed to "WZ" later. --Connel MacKenzie 06:02, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Logos should not include the letter 'w' (or 'wz') unless it is expected that each language will change it to the appropriate letter for that language - imho a very bad idea, given that the point of the logo is to give a unified identity to the project. --HappyDog 19:44, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

I concur; including a "W" is a bad idea^TM, think of Japanese, Chinese, Catalan, ... —Nightstallion (?) 05:56, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Not a bad idea in my opinion. The current logo has been adapted to each Wiktionary's specific language while still retaining the characteristic looks. That's what I like about it, and I think it'd be great if something like that could be preserved despite a logo change. The text buble is the central image, and each Wiktionary could fill it in according to their language. I understand why people think that's a bad idea, but I quite like it. Vildricianus 08:40, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, but quite a few Wiktionaries haven't got a translated logo yet, and some languages will just not fit into one of our current designs. The Wikipedia logo contains enough letters to make it look international, but the other successful logos are non-linguistically based. I personally still prefer the faces logo to the others, because it is completely universal (except perhaps to those outside the human race :).Daniel (‽) Check out Wikiscope! 09:00, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

I think the same : the faces logo is the only one understandable by anyone, whatever language they speak. - Darkdadaah 13:46, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Speaking of WiktionaryZ (and this is probably the wrong place), but can we use [2] as the logo for it? Do I need permission? How do I request it? Thanks! --Celestianpower (en, wikt) 22:21, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Proposals

Gallery

1 (by User:Smurrayinchester*): discussion, votes	3 (by User:Diego UFCG): discussion, votes	4 (by User:Alfakim*): discussion, votes	5 (by User:Firehazard07): discussion, votes
6 (by User:HappyDog*): discussion, votes	7 (by User:Yorktown1776*): discussion, votes	8 (by User:Stefreak*): discussion, votes	9 (by User:Spacebirdy*): discussion, votes
10 (by User:Rei-artur*): discussion, votes	11 (by User:Elian): discussion, votes	12 (by User:Stephane8888*): discussion, votes	13 (by user:tsca): discussion, votes
14 (by User:Blackd): discussion, votes	15 (current logo): discussion, votes	16 (by User:Kmww): discussion, votes	17 (by User:Stefreak): discussion, votes
18 (by User:Al Silonov): discussion, votes	19 (by User:Rei-artur): discussion, votes

* Variants of logo below.

Thumbnails 35 px

As will appear in sister projects template:

• Smurrayinchester's logo idea
• HappyDog's logo idea
• Yorktown1776's logo idea

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As will appear in inline links:

#1 (Tiles)

Proposed "Scrabble-Mah Jong" style logo	In Japanese	Flat printable version	Circular w/ Wikimedia colours
Pyramid style	Favicon	SVG Classic	SVG Modern
SVG Round

How about a number of flatish squares, like Scrabble tiles, with some letters on, like the Wikipedia puzzle pieces? Smurrayinchester 07:13, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Mh. Could you do a sketch of that? —Nightstallion (?) 11:44, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Proposed "Scrabble-Mah Jong" style logo

In Japanese

Flat printable version

Something possibly like this. The fact that the Latin W is in the centre and red indicates that this is primarily a Latin text Wiktionary; the Japanese wiktionary for example then simply move around the W and the シ to indicate that it is primarily a Japanese wiktionary and so on. The shapes will also scale well when used as an SVG file as they are mainly simple geometric forms and vector fonts. Smurrayinchester 18:53, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Hey, I like that one. =] —Nightstallion (?) 19:09, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

This one's great. Maybe there should be a flat-color version, too, for use in print. Tlogmer 22:52, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

I like this model, too.--Bertrand GRONDIN 09:30, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

1. Yeah - I love it - it's the best of the lot that have appeared so far. The first thing I think of when I think of words is w:Scrabble, so in this respect perfect. I also love the customisability in terms of the different writing systems. Beautiful, and you've got my vote :). --Celestianpower (en, wikt) 15:25, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

   Err, this one's indeed the best so far, but why is such an obscure Cyrillic letter used? I mean the "Њ" thing - it's only used in Serbian and Macedonian. Why not consider some other Cyrillic letter that's characteristic for most of the languages that use this alphabet? Like "Ж" or "Ш"? Todor→Bozhinov

My only qualm with this one is the overall shape. Couldn't you group the tiles together (throw them on top of each other, maybe increase the perspective a bit) in order to form some kind of (presumably triangle) balanced form? As it is, it's nice and clean, but hard to support because of the focally boring placement of the tiles. There could be some symbolism in the placement of tiles as well, with older alphabets higher up and more modern alphabets emerging from underneath, hinting at the influence historical languages have on modern speech. freshgavin ^TALK 03:39, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

I like this idea, and I suggest you add korea characters and other representative characters. But not to much!--Vipuser 03:50, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

The only problem I see with this is that it may become overloaded if we add too many different alphabets, and that it may be unfair to exclude specific scripts... Apart from that, a more circular arrangement of the tiles might be nice, but in principle, it's still one of my top 2. ;) —Nightstallion (?) 06:01, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

It is just a sketch; I just chose Њ because it was the first Cyrillic letter I found. I've made a sketch of Freshgavin's idea, although it may need some tweaking to make the text on the lower layers more visible. I can't add any other scripts (besides Korean, which I have done), as these are the only ones which work on my computer, but more localised ones, such as Armenian and Burmese, could always be added by the localised Wiktionary to the top of their pile. Smurrayinchester 07:49, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm a little concerned that the reference to Scrabble may not be a good idea. It's a little culturally biased, and implies an iconic status of the game that many may not see. Maybe I'm just too used to the excessive neutral, non-corporate workings of the BBC though (although maybe if it's a close call you could see if Hasbro would pay the Foundation to swing it towards the Scrabble one!). Just a thought. w:User:Bigbluefish 16:11, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Well, the original idea was to base it on anagram tiles, which are a bit like scrabble tiles, but without the scores on. But since the colours I chose made them look Scrabbl-y, the name "Scrable logo" has stuck... Smurrayinchester 11:22, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

I love this proposal, and my favorite one is the circle. I like how the scripts are used. Aeetlrsk 20:09, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

I really like this proposal, too. Neat idea, and very nicely executed. —Scs 16:00, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

For a favicon or sister projects version of this logo, you could keep only the central W or シ tile. Note that the Wikipedia logo also favors certain scripts over others; that logo just has enough room to feature more scripts, that's all. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 19:37, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Like this? Smurrayinchester 20:05, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Yeah - that works really well! --Celestianpower (en, wikt) 07:19, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

I like this single tile better than any of the collections. Maybe if the primary, central tile were brought closer to the camera, that is, if it were significantly bigger than and partially hid the others, then you could use the same image throughout. 59.112.42.230 20:00, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Maybe it is the tile color, but this does nothing for me. --Connel MacKenzie 19:15, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

The scrabble pieces are a good idea - gives a nice complement to the wikipedia puzzle pieces, too. One suggestion: What about a version which incorporates the project name _in_ the pictures? such as "random scrabble pieces around and in the middle some forming the text "wikt" (wiktionary probably would be too long...)? --Elian 15:50, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

I've created two proposals with the name added; one with the name spelt in tiles, and one with a more traditional style. Smurrayinchester 20:32, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

the single scrabble tile is excellent. I think we should avoid the temptation to cram all sorts of exotic characters into the logo. en:User:Dbachmann 17:08, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

I would like that version too, but that might increase the temptation to use a "U" or "シ" for other languages; if the logo's only letter is changed, the logo is very different across wikis. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 03:23, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

I really like this proposal and would like to suggest a minor change:

Wiktionary is not about the diversity of typefaces. For any proposal that features several scripts' graphemes such as this one, having all of them in a similar typeface might add to its usability and overall appeal.

I guess the style of choice in terms for logos that are mainly seen on computer screens would be equal stroke width, sans serif – or hēitǐ/gothic/dodum for CJK graphemes; besides typeface issues, perhaps the Greek grapheme would fit in better if it were an upper case one.

In the images displayed, the top row graphemes (Kana and Brahmic) are shown in equal stroke width fonts, whereas the other two rows show graphemes in serif fonts of different stroke width, and a simplified hànzì in a sòngtǐ font.

If it isn't too much work, I suggest to change the 2nd and 3rd rows to use equal stroke width fonts – that is, the Hebrew grapheme should look like an Arial one, the Arabic grapheme like a Tahoma one, the hànzì like a SimHei one etc. Unfortunately, I don't know where to get the necessary fonts (except for nice GPL fonts for Hangeul, which is currently not included).*

The above suggestion applies to any similar proposal to be made (see #4, #10); I merely post this thought here because this is the first proposal and because it seems to enjoy some support. Thank you for reading this. W. 2006-07-21

*On second thought, we don't need fonts – if there are only so many graphemes in the logo, they can be hand-made individually. Of course, fonts would come in handy for logos such as Wiktname.png that contain more text in the same style as on the scattered pieces, where it would be too tiresome to mold letter shapes individually. W. 2006-07-21

I like the one with the normal text "Wiktionary", without beeing inside the little blocks. I would only like it with black text. --201.17.164.229 15:24, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

I also like the version with plain text below, but I would prefer if the project name and tagline would be set in a font and color similar to Wikipedia's logo. The current image looks too close to Times New Roman for me... :^) – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 21:08, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

I agree: all fonts should be matched alphabet-for-alphabet with the Wikipedia logo. Also, I think the tiles themselves need to be redone (change the colour, lose the black border strokes) to match the sister logos, particularly Wikibooks. Seahen 06:15, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I couldn't find the Wikipedia font on my computer. Times New Roman was the closest. No other projects use the Wikipedia font, mind you. Wikispecies has a futuristic font, Wikiquote is calligraphic and Wikinews is a sleek sans-serif. Smurrayinchester 18:06, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, I understand that these images are still mockups. But maybe one of the Wikipedia logo's designers could offer to add that text in the Wikipedia logo font. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 08:54, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

I love this one. 67.181.63.245 13:04, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

I think this is a great concept, really adaptable and usable in many contexts. You could have them as scrabble pieces, mahjong, runes, tokens, pyramids, first-aid style crosses, christian style-crosses, star of davids, moon stones, interconnecting circles, discs, an interacial-coffee-coloured-tribe-of-dancing-circle-hand-holding-hugging-humans... whatever!! I think it's great. But then again, I'm just a grrl... ;) Craybee 12:38, 15 August 2006 (UTC+1200)

I've created SVG versions of the file (there appears to be a small problem with the chinese character causing a small black artifact, but I can deal with that later). I've also created a more modern looking one, which the San-Serif font suggested above. I can also mix and match fonts to get the best representation of each figure. Smurrayinchester 14:36, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Without the subtle gradient, your Classic variation doesn't seem nearly as polished as the original proposal (the non–"flat printable version"). I think it'd work at smaller resolutions, though. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 04:02, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice; I've added a gradient and fixed the glitch. Smurrayinchester 13:10, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary/logo#Combo for my version ^^

--Stefreak 21:50, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

The "Favicon" is very good... because we are accustomed to see the current “Inline link” : W Stephane8888 09:41, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

I like the circle design, but I'd like more if:

1. Circle were blue instead of green.
2. Pieces were green.
3. The main piece had the first letter of the word "Wiktionary" (the translations, on each project).

-es:R2D2! 16:56, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm not the only one that thinks "シ" looks like a smiley face, am I? --64.231.73.63 02:09, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Nope. I find that a neat coincidence, kind of like the arrow in the FedEx logo. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 02:35, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

This logo needs to be changed slightly, for the reasons mentioned Here --Ω 21:24, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

The shin (ש) is not intended to be a W; I choose it purely out of aesthetic convenience, clarity, and the fact that the arabic letter I choose also happened to be shin (ﺵ). Lambda (λ) and shi (シ) are also not Ws, in fact the only W here is W, which I am considering changing to an A, as not all Latin languages have a W (Catalan doesn't, for instance). Smurrayinchester 06:34, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Votes (40)

1. Support my second choice but I like it; the 'ae' one is my first choice. I would advocate choosing a tile other than the 'w' for the favicon, maybe an 'ae' tile. --Rogerhc 22:51, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
2. Support Great work! —Nightstallion (?) 07:45, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
3. strong Support —Scs 14:24, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
4. Support Particularly the original three versions. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 17:24, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
5. --DaB. 21:13, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
6. Support Philbert^2.71828 01:23, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
7. Support--Shizhao 06:37, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
8. Support Daniel (‽) Check out Wikiscope! 19:17, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
9. Support --Dbl2010 22:54, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
10. Support no hesitation in supporting any variation of these great ideas 80.193.130.5 11:38, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
11. Support --Alfred Dengan 17:45, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
12. Support #1. -- Earle Martin 16:57, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
13. Support Gilles MAIRET--84.100.24.225 19:45, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
14. Support--Ragesoss 22:38, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
15. Support — MrDolomite | Talk 01:47, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
16. Support --Frank Schulenburg 18:23, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
17. Support -- WonYong ^{(Talk / Contrib)} 06:35, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
18. Support, though I particularly like it with the name of the project below, such as Wiktionary, शब्दकोश, etc. That could be separate if possible so the main logo wouldn't need to be redone hundreds of times. - Taxman 12:34, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
19. Support –Stephen 16:34, 12 September 2006 (UTC) (unable to create a log-in account because I cannot see the antispam image with the code letters.)
20. Support Well done! Bravo! --George D. Bozovic 20:21, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
21. A favor Taragui 07:25, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
22. Support with centrepiece "W".--Cyberjunkie 07:31, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
23. Support -- Wikipedia:User:LtPowers -- 69.204.116.80 17:51, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
24. Support --Manie 20:18, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
25. Support Lmaltier 89.82.221.120 20:55, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
26. Support --Blakwolf 06:43, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
27. Support Axxgreazz (talk?) 18:21, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
28. conditional support only if the center tile W is brought closer to the viewer, and understanding that the choice of characters etc. is to be decided. Davilla 03:02, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
29. Support --Jonas kork 14:45, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
30. Support --Davidlud 01:57, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
31. Support Excellent! --Gray Porpoise 18:35, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
32. Support the wub 23:58, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
33. Support Alittlewoodelfe 82.227.147.206 14:23, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
34. Support Tk 14:31, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
35. Support User:neoziro 14:31, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
36. Support, especially the original "mah-jong" version. Grandmasterka 21:27, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
37. Support if a traditional "wei" (維) is used instead. Miborovsky 22:40, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
38. Support Warofdreams 02:40, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
39. Derbeth 12:45, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
40. A favor --Alhen 12:21, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

#2 (Spiral Text)

And idea my girlfriend came up with would be to have some text (not necessarily the same we've got now, we might want to opt for something more neutral involving different scripts and languages, or even something that doesn't use words but simply letters and signs from different languages, like in the Wikipedia logo) aligned in a spiral-like shape, somehow like this, but with the text more closely aligned like in this picture to give it a more circle-like feeling; how much and what kind of text we could use would be for later to decide. What do you think? —Nightstallion (?) 05:48, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

That does tend to be difficult to read. Also, I don't know how "copyrightable" it is. -- Zanimum 13:00, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Mh, fair enough, yes. Forget it, then. —Nightstallion (?) 13:26, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Votes (0)

#3 (Stylised Book-reader)

I thought in a simplistic logo, as a man reading a green book, with the Wikimedia Foundation colors. Can someone help me creating its SVG version? Diego UFCG 09:54, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

It is too much like Wikimedia logo :S And the book is not a good idea (see Jonas' comment above). - Darkdadaah 16:13, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Well, Wikispecies' and Commons' logos are also very similar to Meta's, without being too close. I like the idea, but I'd also like to see a few different ideas. But still – we have our first actual draft. =] —Nightstallion (?) 18:39, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I didn't even realise what this logo could have possibly been until I read the description. Now that I know what it is, I like the idea, but maybe something a little bit more obvious? --Firehazard07 05:03, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

I like it as well, looks nice and clean. I agree that the book imagery lacks justification though. If he was writing I think it would make more sense, but it's hard to think of a way to illustrate anything more complex without ruining the simplicity. freshgavin ^TALK 03:32, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Sadly, I think it looks way too much like a poke'ball. --Snarius

I like this proposal most. It is simple and plain and therefore easily rememberable. And if you don't like the book, then view it as a screen. It's an online dictionary! You see, there's no problem ;-) --::Slomox:: >< 15:58, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Essa proposta tem o meu apoio. Seria importante apenas, fazermos variações da mesma. Jonas Tomazini >>> Diga lá! 15:23, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Pikachu, I choose you! Sorry, but this looks like a Poké Ball to me too. Now I know it's a person, yeah, I can definitely see that, but I'd never have worked it out myself. It's a beautiful design, but the logo should have a mental response of "oh, that's a ____", not "what the #$%& is that supposed to be?!" Garrett 22:04, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

I like this one best.24.91.110.51 19:04, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

This logo resembles the Wikimedia logo too closely. --Gray Porpoise 20:42, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

So far, this is visually the best especially on the thumbnails and smaller versions - simplicity is something difficult to achieve :-) my vote --Diligent 07:54, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

I like this one, however it may be too similar to the Foundation (Meta) logo. There have been problems with the Incubator logo because it was too similar to the Foundation logo, but there we could say the Incubator is very close to Meta anyway. For a whole seperate project that would not be the case, and so there could be problems. Daniel (‽) Check out Wikiscope! 09:41, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

I prefere this logo for wikibooks, instead of the current wikibooks logo. For wiktionary it´s not the right one. -- W like wiki 17:06, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Clean ... simple ... classic ... and a likely trademark violation: W:Image:100%_Happy.PNG - Davodd | Talk 23:04, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Honestly, I didn't know Target logo when I thought my proposal. -Diego UFCG 11:20, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Votes (5)

1. A favor Taragui 07:25, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
2. Support --Cyberjunkie 07:30, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
3. Support Lmaltier 89.82.221.120 20:56, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
4. Support Zanatic 16:12, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
5. A favor --Alhen 12:22, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

#4 (Globe)

Anyone? --Alfakim 23:35, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Yay, now the proposals really start to come in. :) —Nightstallion (?) 06:01, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

It's nice, but the globe looks a bit busy, and I don't like that it seems to be a software icon (even if it is free). Could this be simplified a bit? Smurrayinchester 06:53, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Just an idea - this image is already in free use throughout wikimedia. but something like this would be good. --Alfakim 17:08, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

I disagree with Smurrayinchester. The fact that it's based on an icon gives the creator(s) of the icon something to be proud of, and it's a high quality stock icon, which means the logo will be sleek indeed. With a little rearanging of letters to show the countries where they are used (i.e. an "a" over the US/Britan, wherever else English is used), and the logo's done and sleek.--Mac Wanter 23:21, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Here's another idea. just a concept, change it as necessary. --Alfakim 17:34, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

I like that one : the earth surrouded by a (unclosed) circle with different characters... It seems to mean that every language on Earth can be in Wiktionary (which is the purpose). To improve this, I suggest to find a way to show that it is in construction (like Wikipedia logo with pieces missing). - Darkdadaah 18:07, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Very Good!! I will vote in this proposal. -- Marcelo Silva 21:12, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

This one is really great! 64.252.33.106 04:12, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Something else for others to work with. I envision black letters from other languages climbing up the blue ring, converging at the W. --Alfakim 17:12, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

That's already much more to my liking. Best proposal so far. Vildricianus 18:49, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I think this would go better on Wikipedia. --Jrothwell 15:39, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Mm. I don't like it that much anymore. Actually, I still don't think any of the proposals is a sound replacement of the current logo. We'll need some more ideas. Vildricianus 16:07, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

This design will probably need changing for the reasons mentioned here.

How about this logo? It has a tidy, symmetrical outline and a prominent blue circular ring, and it uses only Wikimedia Foundation colours (and web-safe shades of grey). Also, we can add more letters from different scripts if desired.

Note that the continent outlines are from Image:Gnome-globe.svg, which is LGPL by David Vignoni, so they may need to be redone to ensure clear title to the logo. Seahen 18:13, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

I like it : Original, universal, understandable, but is not enough visible : Maybe with thicker lines. Book and Letters are redundant : maybe without letters ? Stephane8888 11:16, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Votes (8)

1. Support Philbert^2.71828 01:23, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
2. Support Dante, the Wicked 01:19, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
3. Support --Bertrand GRONDIN 08:30, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
4. Support Mr. Bad Guy 17:14, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
5. Support Lmaltier 89.82.221.120 20:57, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
6. Support --Gray Porpoise 18:23, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
7. Support User:Cpreusser
8. Support Reignerok 19:17, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

#5 (Cartoony Book)

I didn't know which fonts Wikimedia would want for the Wiktionary, so I leave that section blank (unless requested otherwise). The idea is basically a dictionary. No singular language involved, used the wikimedia colors, already a vector image seen as a GIF or a PNG. The GIF image has a solid white background, whereas the PNG has a transparent background. Created in Illustrator, many different file types available at request. --Firehazard07 05:43, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

A similar proposal was made on Wikisource for a logo like this. The problem primarily is that it looks like clip art; it doe