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Logo of Wikipedia
This page is about the meaning, origin and characteristic of the symbol, emblem, seal, sign, logo or flag: Logo of Wikipedia.
The logo of Wikipedia, an Internet-based free multilingual encyclopedia, is an unfinished globe constructed from jigsaw pieces—some pieces are missing at the top—inscribed with glyphs from many different writing systems. As displayed on the web pages of the English-language version of Wikipedia, there is a wordmark "Wikipedia" under the globe, and below that the text "The Free Encyclopedia", in the free open-source Linux Libertine font.
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. In the process, some errors were introduced. In particular, one piece of Devanagari script and one piece of Japanese katakana were incorrectly displayed.
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Graphical characteristics:
Asymmetric, Open shape, Colorful, Contains curved lines, Has no crossing lines.
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