Editing Wiktionary (section)

===Logos===
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Wiktionary has historically lacked a uniform logo across its numerous language editions. Some editions use logos that depict a dictionary entry about the term "Wiktionary", based on the previous English Wiktionary logo, which was designed by Brooke Vibber, a [[MediaWiki]] developer.<ref>"[[wikt:Wiktionary talk:Wiktionary Logo|Wiktionary talk:Wiktionary Logo]]", English Wiktionary, Wikimedia Foundation.</ref> Because a purely textual logo must vary considerably from language to language, a four-phase contest to adopt a uniform logo was held at the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki from September to October 2006.{{efn|name=Wiktionary logo|"[[m:Wiktionary/logo|Wiktionary/logo]]", Meta-Wiki, [[Wikimedia Foundation]].}} Some communities adopted the winning entry by "[[wikt:User:Smurrayinchester|Smurrayinchester]]", a 3×3 grid of wooden tiles, each bearing a character from a different writing system. However, the poll did not see as much participation from the Wiktionary community as some community members had hoped, and a number of the larger wikis ultimately kept their textual logos.{{efn|name=Wiktionary logo}}

In April 2009, the issue was resurrected with a new contest. This time, a depiction by "AAEngelman" of an open hardbound dictionary won a head-to-head vote against the 2006 logo, but the process to refine and adopt the new logo then stalled.<ref>"[[m:Wiktionary/logo/refresh/voting|Wiktionary/logo/refresh/voting]]", Meta-Wiki, Wikimedia Foundation.</ref> In the following years, some wikis replaced their textual logos with one of the two newer logos. In 2012, 55 wikis that had been using the English Wiktionary logo received localized versions of the 2006 design by "Smurrayinchester".{{efn|[[mailarchive:translators-l/2012-December/002193.html|[Translators-l] 56 Wiktionaries got a localised logo]]}} In July 2016, the English Wiktionary adopted a variant of this logo.<ref>[[phab:T139255]]</ref> {{As of|2016|07|04}}, 135 wikis, representing 61% of Wiktionary's entries, use a logo based on the 2006 design by "Smurrayinchester", 33 wikis (36%) use a textual logo, and three wikis (3%) use the 2009 design by "AAEngelman".<ref>[[m:Wiktionary/logo#Logo use statistics]].</ref>