I very, very much doubt that I'm the first person to point this out, but wouldn't it be better (more consistent, more logical) to use the same logo for both wikipedia and meta wikipedia, or if not, then if a different logo is used for meta, wouldn't it be better to use one that actually says meta on it rather than just a different version of the same? --Lezek
Wikipedia: We can sure as hell shovel it. ;-) -- Tarquin 15:30 Oct 15, 2002 (UTC)
Thank you, Tarquin. Your suggestion will be given all due consideration. -- Stephen Gilbert 15:58 Oct 15, 2002 (UTC)
Moved from Wikipedia:Village pump on Thursday, September 25th, 02003.
For those who already cast their votes on the meta, BEWARE:
Your vote would be invalid if you do not have an separate account on meta or if you homepage on meta does not redirect to your homepage on a wikipedia project of which you have more than 10 contributions.
My own vote was classified as invalid! I make my homepage a redirect now and hope it is fixed. But there are still wikipedians do not know that.
-wshun 19:12, 20 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Where is the current Wikipedia logo located? It doesn't seem to be on the page...
The logo can't be alphabet-exhastive. Wikipedia needs something truly universal, like this: *[1] Take the logo on the lower right: A blossom for unfurling knowledge. Hibiscus because "wiki" is the hawaiian word for "fast." Arrows pointing out in every cardinal direction. A puzzle piece in the negative space. Oh, and four people leaning into an open central square, collaborating. I know I'm not alone here.
Discussion and Petition still ongoing... --Quiddity 18:29, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
Anyone know what the font for the Wikipedia logo is?
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 76.171.7.6 (talk • contribs) 8:14, Mar 26, 2007 (UTC).
Can anyone tell me why is the Chinese character on the logo "祖"? --Voidvector 09:59, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone know what the text in Image:Old wikipedia logo.png is taken from? - BanyanTree 08:42, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi folks. I'm not the creator of the original logo, so I don't have any information about how it was made. I'll see if I can find out who created it. -- Stephen Gilbert 18:36, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
I remember Larry saying something about it once, but I can't find the link (could be lost - much of the 2001 stuff is). But contact Larry Sanger at Citizendium. You could also try asking User:Tim Shell as he would have been the one to load it onto the server when the first instance of UseModWiki was installed. Manning (talk) 13:41, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
We need a new favicon in my opinion. This one looks kind of boring. We need something like a smaller version of the current puzzle logo, but with a W in the middle or to the side. Any comments would be helpful.–Sidious1701(talk • email • todo) 23:33, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
This has been bugging me for a while, but if you look at the edges of the Wiki "globe" in the corner of the screen there, you'll notice a jaggy white border. Compare this to German or French wikis, and you can see what I'm talking about. I don't have either the imaging know-how or the privileges to fix it myself, but surely someone does? Justme8800 23:33, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
There is currently a thread on the foundation mailing list, discussing both a 3d version of the globe with the hidden pieces filled in, as well as the problems seen in the current logo. Just a heads up. :) -- Quiddity (talk) 18:37, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
Does anyone know if the puzzle logo was inspired by a very similar image in Scott McCloud's 2000 Reinventing Comics? (I'm guessing not, given discussion above, but I'm curious. Anyone?) Thmazing (talk) 19:54, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Please participate in the discussion at meta:Talk:Wikipedia/Logo, which has official support, and appears to be moving forward. -- Quiddity (talk) 22:14, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
Why there is "Й" in the logo? It means "j", not "w"! Kubek15]]$4 (Sign!) (Contribs) (UBX) 12:00, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
Why did they get rid of "Й"? It was much cooler than the current. (Stepanstas (talk) 14:45, 21 May 2010 (UTC))
In the current logo, the devnagari script, which is used for languages like sanskrit, hindi, marati etc., is not shown in the correct way. Please correct it . —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.172.113.218 (talk) 15:08, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
The Indic text on the center-left side of the logo is NOT correctly formed. It shows the ि trailing to the right of the character when it should in fact be attached to the character to the LEFT of it, like this:
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/2415/78634251.jpg
GSMR (talk) 15:53, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
Title above says it all. Why not eh? 203.219.156.86 (talk) 10:16, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
The 3d model constructed for the new logo should be available in the name of openness! Where can i find it? --Beao 19:44, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Second this. Where is .blender file? --AS sa 13:32, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Given that no one[citation needed] on the Wikipedia payroll will admit that there is anything valuable, or anything at all for that matter, inside the puzzle globe, and given further that one (i.e., yours truly) does not see any Elvish on the globe, one is left to assume that one or more Cabals have conspired to hide all the Elvish on the inside. For shame! (Seriously, though, include Klingon but not Elivish?! Who forgot the Elvish?) kcylsnavS (kalt) 22:38, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
How about putting a real language on, like Irish uncial dotted g or s? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.159.78.56 (talk) 16:06, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
A real language? So Klingon and Elvish were fully developed for nothing, eh? Don't forget the existence of a Klingon Dictionary. Do your homework.
Like German [[2]], Italian [[3]], Portugese [[4]] and French [[5]] Wikipedias, as of the signing of this comment. Even http://wikipedia.org/ [[6]] has the old olgo in the centre. Is this the way it should be? It seems like the new logo just for "testing out" in English Wikipedia... =D KPUFFERFİSHṪ•Ċ 02:57, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
As a side note, perhaps we could describe the characters in the new logo similar to what we had done for the third. Plase improve/edit (the table I mean, not this comment). I'm far from any alphabet expert or something (For most part, I'm just looking at the picture name). Note the many blanks too. KPUFFERFİSHṪ•Ċ 03:52, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Yeah. But the Javanese character on the leftmost column is still missing... KPUFFERFİSHṪ•Ċ 07:03, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
I've completed the table with the characters of the old logo. Now all of them have images for illustration, in case the reader doesn't have the appropriate fonts to render the texts.
However, there's still one character that resists identification: the one on the lower left corner. Can you find out anything about that? --Waldir talk 11:45, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Is anyone here able to see all of the font representations (below the individual glyph images) in the table? I can see most, but only about 85-90% I think. If you can see all of them, and you're using a Windows PC and Firefox, can you please tell us what your font settings are? kcylsnavS{screechharrass} 01:51, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
I'm kind of throwing this here, because I'm not in the mood to write a huge, detailed proposal to the Foundation just yet, and thoughts might be appreciated first. Should Wikipedia have an "open use" logo? Debian has separate logos: one is Free™®©, the other is strictly reserved for officially endorsed products. There are Free products that do have a strongly defended logo and branding (Firefox, Java and, um, Wikipedia), but one look at the small schism between Debian and Firefox shows that having a single, non-free logo and trademark in place is an invitation to do a wholly lawsuit-compliant fork that doesn't benefit the end user much. There's a similar situation with the Java programming language: The platform is open source, the branding isn't - but they put the mascot under BSD license, so at least people can create spiffy web buttons without signing their soul to Sun Microsystems the Devil Oracle. (See, it's getting worse every year.) In my opinion, Wikipedia could benefit from officially sanctioned "open use" logos. An alternate version of the puzzle ball might be confusing to the end users, but maybe open logos could be based on the word mark portion of the logo? The "W" favicon is pretty widely known already, isn't it? --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 23:37, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Not sure this is the right place, because this has nothing to do with the Wikipedia logo itself, instead to do with the little "W" icon you see in the address bar or next to tabs. If you look at this image, you can see that the Commons logo is without a background (looks darker because of the theme I'm using), while the Wikipedia logo is with a while square background. Wouldn't it be better if the background of the "W" icon could be removed too? Rehman 02:47, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
Every time I open a new page, the logo moves from left to right, which slows down the opening time several seconds, each time. Is this part of the maintenance thing that was being mentioned yesterday, or is this permanent? All Hallow's Wraith (talk) 00:03, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
What is the Usage guideline for the famous Puzzle Logo?--Sandbag for smash bros 4 (talk) 05:37, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
The section on the new logo has a table of the characters on the logo, including Armenian, Latin and Cyrillic "vev." Curiously, neither the Latin or Cyrillic letters are named "vev." What gives? 74.60.134.199 (talk) 11:35, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
Surely this logo should be in this internal Wikipedia page? I saw it when Wikipedia was celebrating its 5,000,000th article. If so, what sort of stuff should I put into this page? Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 04:52, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
See:
--Kevjonesin (talk) 19:38, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
I just put this section onto meta:Errors in the Wikipedia logo § Klingon replaced by Ge'ez, and only then checked the page history and saw that the previous entry was in June 2013, so the page isn't active and probably no one will see it there. So... pasting here.
Wikipedia logo : § Current logo says
The Ge'ez character is ው, U+12CD ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE WE.[1] In the table in Ge'ez script#Ge'ez abugida it is in the second section of the table, second row (consonant Wäwe), sixth column (vowel ə [ɨ]), so it is pronounced [wɨ] (IPA), which is pretty close to the first syllable of "Wikipedia" in English.
However, Wikipedia:Wikipedia logos : § The finalized logo : § Alphabets represented in the logo doesn't reflect that change, though a reader would expect "The finalized logo" to refer to the current one. The table of characters there (row 2, column 4, corresponding to the location on the jigsaw globe illustrated there) has
Klingon r ()[2] |
I'm rather afraid to edit that table and section. Can someone else make the appropriate fix?
References
--Thnidu (talk) 23:40, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
Someone pointed out to me that there is a drawing made by the information scientist Paul Otlet (1868-1944) that looks eerily similar not only to the Wikipedia puzzle ball logo, but also to the front page. Check out this video at 1:11 link here. I still don't know the original source of the drawing but am attempting to track it down. If I understand correctly from WP:Wikipedia logos, the third logo was the first iteration of puzzle ball, with the vote going towards User:Paul Stansifer's design, then User:Nohat's modifications are what resulted in the "silver ball" or "silver puzzle ball" design that was accepted. So I'd like to ask Paul Stansifer and Nohat directly; were you aware of Paul Otlet or his drawings when you were constructing your designs? Or, does anyone else have information as to this possible origin? Hexatekin (talk) 18:12, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
While investigating the hypothetical question, I came across this talk page on French Wikipedia. It is unclear whether a final proposal for a coat of arms for Wikipedia was determined. In any case, I collected the images in the Commons category linked here.Chicbyaccident (talk) 09:51, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
Is there a reason why the English Wikipedia's slogan ("The Free Encyclopedia") is rendered with each word capitalised? The other Wikipedias, to my knowledge, seem to have the slogan in sentence case (e.g. "L'encyclopédie libre" for French, "La enciclopedia libre" for Spanish, "L'enciclopedia libera" for Italian). It seems to me that the English version should also be rendered in the same way (i.e. as "The free encyclopedia"). RAVENPVFF | talk ~ 06:29, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
The article content now starts with: "Wikipedia's first true logo was an image that was originally submitted by Bjørn Smestad for a Nupedia logo competition which took place in 2000. Jimmy Wales (Jimbo) thought it would be a much better logo than the flag, and it remained for the next eight months". It briefly mentions 'the flag', but never actually states that 'the flag' (which probably refers to the American flag, which I heard more often being mentioned as the first file that was used as logo) was used as logo. Could someone confirm that this was indeed the case, and can we then make that explicit without keeping it this vague? effeietsanders 04:17, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
I just had a thought as we are approaching the 20th anniversary - do we want to add a puzzle piece to the globe to celebrate 20 years of building this repository? VanIsaacWScont 09:05, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
I have two questions about the logo on Wikipedia.
I can't find any documentation on the Three-Layered Cake Logo that I see on the meta home page. I'm guessing its an image for the 20th anniversary of Wikipedia. But the W atop the cake looks suspiciously like a crown, the frosting looks like yellow hair, and the two red candies look like eyes. And the way the frosting is dripping suggests melting... So what I also see is a certain famous political figure with royal ambitions melting into a hole following the 2020 elections. I realize Wikipedia is politically-neutral, but still, as an news-obsessed American, am I reading too much into this image? Thanks Happy temporizer (talk) 18:00, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
Anyway, I realized some accidental un-capitalization. I fixed those. Continue this page if you edit too. 22:23, 26 December 2023 (UTC) from a non-user