User talk:Tiyuwac

Each piece bears a glyph (letter or character), symbolizing the multilingualism of Wikipedia. They include the Cyrillic letter И (“I”), the Greek letter Ω (Omega), the Korean syllabic block 위 (wi), the Arabic letter و (Waw), the Chinese character 維 (Wéi), the Devanagari akshar वि (Wi) at the left, the Bangla borno উ (U), the Kannada akshara ವಿ (Vi) at the bottom, the Hebrew letter ו (Vav), the Georgian ვ (Vin) and at the uppermost left the Armenian Վ (Vev). As with the Latin letter “W”, these glyphs are in most cases the first glyph of the name “Wikipedia” rendered in that language (for example, 維基大典 in Classical Chinese; similarly the Japanese katakana ウィ makes the sound “wi”).[3]

The empty space at the top represents the (incomplete) nature of the project, and languages and articles yet to be added. History Wikipedia's logo used from 2003 until 2010 Logo creator Paul Stansifer at the Wikimedia Foundation in front of the Wikipedia Puzzle Globe Logo sculpture in May 2012

An initial design of the logo was created by Paul Stansifer, a 21-year-old Wikipedia user, whose entry won a design competition run by the site in 2003. It was then improved by former student and software developer, David Friedland. He changed the styling of the jigsaw pieces so that their boundaries seemed indented and simplified their contents to be a single glyph, rather than a word.[4] In the process, some errors were introduced.[4] In particular, one piece of Devanagari script and one piece of Japanese katakana were incorrectly displayed.[5] A "Wikiball"

In 2007, a modified 3D model was developed by Wikimedia Taiwan for Wikimania, when they distributed a 3-inch diameter spherical puzzle based on the logo, that attendees could piece together. It did not add other letters on the parts that cannot be seen on the 2D logo, but used that space to include small logos of the sister projects and information about Wikimania. A variant of that model was used to build a person-sized Wikiball that spun on a stand, featured during the event.[6] This led to a renewed interest in getting a proper 3D model for the logo. The 3D Wikipedia puzzle from Wikimania 2007

By 2007, users on listservs discovered that the logo had some minor errors. The errors were not immediately fixed, because, according to Friedland, he could not locate the original project file. Friedland added that "I have tried to reconstruct it, but it never looks right" and that the logo "should be redrawn by a professional illustrator."[4] Kizu Naoko (木津 尚子?), a Wikipedian, said that most Japanese users supported correcting the errors. In an e-mail to Noam Cohen of The New York Times, Kizu said that "It could be an option to leave them as they are. Most people don't take it serious [sic] and think the graphical logo is a sort of pot-au-feu of various letters without meaning."[4]--Tiyuwac (talk) 18:59, 23 December 2013 (UTC)--Tiyuwac (talk) 18:59, 23 December 2013 (UTC)'Bold text'