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Wikisource faces potential rebranding
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, 31 March 2019
Wikisource — A Wikipedia project
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This story is a republication of
"Wikipedia — A Wikipedia project"
which originally ran in the
the Wikipedia
Signpost
. It has only been edited to fix internal links, and the original story with complete attribution can be found
here
The
Wikimedia Foundation
is conducting a
community consultation
on the Wikimedia/Wikipedia brand. In particular, the
rebranding project
proposes:
Using Wikipedia as the central movement brand rather than Wikimedia.
Providing clearer connections to the sister projects from Wikipedia to drive increased awareness, usage and contributions to all movement projects.
Retaining Wikimedia project names, with the exception of Wikimedia Commons which is recommended to be shortened to Wikicommons to be consistent with other projects.
Exploring new naming conventions for the Foundation and affiliate groups to use Wikipedia rather than Wikimedia.
Considering expository taglines and other naming conventions to reassert the connections between projects (e.g. “______ — A Wikipedia project”).
So far, most people in
the discussion
object to usurping the Wikipedia brand (a
portmanteau
of
wiki
encyclopedia
) and plastering it over projects which are not encyclopedias, like
wiktionary
(a portmanteau of
wiki
dictionary
), creating a weird
Wiktionary, a Wikipedia project
tagline, when Wiktionary is not an encyclopedia, and
Wikipedia is not a dictionary
. Other projects also feel that they have strong identities of their own, such as
Wikinews
, which is not affiliated with Wikipedia. Broad consensus is that rebranding other Wikimedia projects as "Wikipedia projects" is both inaccurate, and creates more confusion than it solves.
Other aspects of the rebranding efforts are less opposed, with several suggestions aiming to establish more effective brands for
Wikipedia
Wikimedia projects
, the
Wikimedia Foundation
, and
MediaWiki
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