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{{Selfref|For Wikipedia's internal page on its past and present logos, see [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia logos]]}}
[[File:Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg|thumb|Wikipedia's desktop logo]]
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The '''logo of [[Wikipedia]]''', an [[Internet]]-based free multilingual [[encyclopedia]], is an unfinished globe constructed from [[Jigsaw puzzle|jigsaw]] pieces—some pieces are missing at the top—inscribed with [[glyph]]s from many different [[writing system]]s. 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|open-source]] [[Linux Libertine]] font.<ref name='font1'>{{cite news |title=New Wikipedia-Logo using LinuxLibertine |first=Philipp H |last=Poll |url=http://web.archive.org/web/20100630234543/http://www.linuxlibertine.org:80/index.php?id=1&L=1|publisher=Libertine Open Fonts Project|accessdate=2018-08-09}}</ref><ref>{{citation |url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2010/05/12/126789933/new-globe-new-user-interface-for-wikipedia |title=New Globe, User Interface For Wikipedia|author=Oma L Gallaga|publisher=NPR|date=May 23, 2010}}</ref>
==Puzzle-Globe Design==
[[File:New Wikimedia Foundation Office 12.jpg|thumb|A partial globe hangs in the Wikimedia office.]]
Each piece bears a glyph (a [[Letter (alphabet)|letter]] or other [[grapheme|character]]), or glyphs, symbolizing the multilingualism of Wikipedia. As with the [[Latin alphabet|Latin letter]] “W”, these glyphs are in most cases the first glyph or glyphs of the name “Wikipedia” rendered in that language. They are as follows:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_official_marks/About_the_official_Marks#What_characters_are_on_the_Wikipedia_puzzle_globe.3F|title=What characters are on the Wikipedia puzzle globe?}}</ref>
*Near the center is [[Latin letters|Latin]] <span style="font-family:Garamond, Adobe Garamond Pro, Warnock, Warnock Pro, Bodoni, Bodoni MT, Goudy Old Style, Musica, serif">{{angbr|W}}</span><!--specifies common fonts that have the crossed-V style of W-->. Above that is [[Japanese character|Japanese]] {{angbr|[[katakana|ウィ]]}} ''wi''; below it are [[Cyrillic script|Cyrillic]] {{angbr|[[I (Cyrillic)|И]]}} ''i'', [[Hebrew alphabet|Hebrew]] {{angbr|{{lang|he|[[Waw (letter)#Hebrew|ו]]}}}} ''w'', and (barely visible at the bottom) [[Tamil alphabet|Tamil]] {{angbr|[[Tamil script|வி]]}} ''vi''.
*To the left of the <span style="font-family:Garamond, Adobe Garamond Pro, Warnock, Warnock Pro, Bodoni, Bodoni MT, Goudy Old Style, Musica, serif">{{angbr|W}}</span> is [[Greek alphabet|Greek]] {{angbr|[[Ω]]}} ''ō'', and below that are [[Chinese characters|Chinese]] {{angbr|[[:wikt:維|維]]}} ''wéi'',<ref>see [[:zh-classical:維基大典|維基大典]]</ref> [[Kannada alphabet|Kannada]] {{angbr|{{lang|kn|[[Kannada alphabet|ವಿ]]}}}} ''vi'', and (barely visible at the bottom) [[Tibetan alphabet|Tibetan]] {{angbr|{{bo-textonly|[[Tibetan script|ཝི]]}}}} ''wi''.
*At left, from the top down, are [[Armenian alphabet|Armenian]] {{angbr|[[Վ]]}} ''v'', [[Cambodian alphabet|Cambodian]] {{angbr|{{lang|km|[[Cambodian alphabet|វិ]]}}}} ''vĕ'' (lying on its side), [[Bengali alphabet|Bengali]] {{angbr|[[Bengali alphabet|উ]]}} ''U'', [[Devanagari alphabet|Devanagari]] [[Devanagari|वि]] ''vi'', and [[Georgian alphabet|Georgian]] {{angbr|[[Georgian alphabet|ვ]]}} ''v''.
*The right-most column is [[Ethiopic alphabet|Ethiopic]] {{angbr|[[Ge'ez script|ው]]}} ''wə'', [[Arabic script|Arabic]] {{angbr|<big>{{lang|ar|[[Waw (letter)#Arabic|و]]}}</big>}} ''w'', [[Hangul|Korean]] {{angbr|[[hangul|위]]}} ''wi'', and [[Thai alphabet|Thai]] {{angbr|[[Thai alphabet|วิ]]}} ''wi''.
The empty space at the top represents the incomplete nature of the project, the articles and languages yet to be added.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}.
==History==
[[File:Wikipedia Logo 1.0.png|thumb|Wikipedia's logo used from 2003 until 2010]]
[[File:Paul Stansifer at the Wikimedia Foundation in front of the Wikipedia Puzzle Globe Logo.jpg|thumb|right|Logo creator Paul Stansifer at the Wikimedia Foundation in front of the ''Wikipedia Puzzle Globe Logo'' sculpture in May 2012]]
{{selfref|See [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia logos]] for details of previous logos, including the glyphs used.}}
The design of "W{{smallcaps all|IKIPEDI}}A" text beneath a globe, with the interlocking-V W and large A, was designed by Wikipedia user The Cunctator for a November 2001 logo contest.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lHdi1CEPLb4C&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&dq=wikipedia+logo+cunctator&source=bl&ots=Fhmq5jONGp&sig=WGN6OWcVWcht1HGDBUiYBXHqDEs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiDy7u1zuDcAhVGPN8KHYE3AykQ6AEwCnoECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=wikipedia%20logo%20cunctator&f=false|title=How Wikipedia Works: And how You Can be a Part of it|last1=Ayers|first1=Phoebe|last2=Matthews|first2=Charles|last3=Ayers|first3=Ben|page=47|date=2008|publisher=No Starch Press}}</ref> An initial design of the puzzle-globe logo was created by Paul Stansifer, a then 17-year-old Wikipedia user, whose entry [[meta:International logo contest/Results|won a design competition]] run by the site in 2003. Another Wikipedia user, David Friedland, subsequently improved the logo by changing the styling of the jigsaw pieces so that their boundaries seemed indented and simplified their contents to be a single glyph per piece, rather than a jumble of nonsense multilingual text.<ref name="NYT-20070625">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/25/technology/25wikipedia.html?fta=y |title=Some Errors Defy Fixes: A Typo in Wikipedia’s Logo Fractures the Sanskrit |author=Noam Cohen |date=June 25, 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> In the process, some errors were introduced.<ref name="NYT-20070625"/> In particular, one piece of [[Devanagari script]] and one piece of Japanese [[katakana]] were incorrectly rendered.<ref>"[https://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/06/24/technology/20070625_WIKIPEDIA_GRAPHIC.html This Logo Is a Work in Progress]." ''[[The New York Times]]''. June 24, 2007. Retrieved on July 11, 2011.</ref> Also, the [[Chinese character]] (袓) has no immediate connection with Wikipedia.
==Current logo==
[[File:Glyphs in Wikipedia logo.png|thumb|Glyphs contained in the new logotype]]
[[File:Wikimania2007 wikiball 127.jpg|thumb|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.<ref>It was torn down after the event. See [[:Commons:Category:Wikimania 2007 Wikiball|this Category of Commons images]] for a sense of its size.</ref> This led to a renewed interest in getting a proper 3D model for the logo.
[[File:Wikimania 2007 puzzle ball.jpg|thumb|The 3D Wikipedia puzzle from Wikimania 2007]]
By 2007, users on [[listserv]]s 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."<ref name="NYT-20070625"/> {{nihongo|Kizu Naoko|木津 尚子}}<!--Leave name in Japanese order for now, pending dispute discussion-->, 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."<ref name="NYT-20070625"/>
In late 2009, the Wikimedia Foundation undertook to fix the errors and generally update the puzzle globe logo. Among other concerns, the original logo did not scale well and some letters appeared distorted.<ref>[http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/around_the_world_in_51_characters.php "brand new" about new logo]</ref> For the new logo, the Wikimedia Foundation defined which characters appear on the "hidden" puzzle pieces, and had a three-dimensional computer model of the globe created to allow the generation of other views.<ref>[http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/05/13/wikipedia-in-3d/ Wikimedia blog – Wikipedia in 3d]</ref> A partial 3D globe was commissioned for the Wikimedia office.<ref>The work was done by the [http://www.becausewecan.org/Wiki_globe Because We Can] studio, based on the new digital 3D model.</ref>
The logo was rolled out on the projects in May 2010. It features the new 3D rendering of the puzzle globe, with corrected characters (and the [[Klingon language|Klingon]] character replaced by a [[Ge'ez script|Ge'ez]] character). The [[wordmark]] has been modified from the [[Hoefler Text]] font to the open-source [[Linux Libertine]] font, and the subtitle is no longer italicized. The "W" character, which was used in various other places in Wikipedia (such as the [[favicon]]) and was a "distinctive part of the Wikipedia brand", was stylized as crossed V's in the original logo, <span style="font-family:Garamond, Adobe Garamond Pro, Warnock, Warnock Pro, Bondoni, Bondoni MT, Goudy Old Style, Musica, serif">{{angbr|W}}</span>, while the W in Linux Libertine is rendered with a single line. To provide the traditional appearance of the Wikipedia "W", a "crossed" W was added as an [[OpenType]] variant to the Linux Libertine font.<ref name="font1" />
On October 24, 2014, the Wikimedia Foundation released the logo, along with all other logos belonging to the Foundation, under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/24/wikimedia-logos-have-been-freed/ |title=Wikimedia Logos Have Been Freed! « Wikimedia blog}}</ref>
On September 29, 2017, the logo of Wikipedia was submerged to the bottom of [[Armenia|Armenia’s]] [[Lake Sevan]] thanks to the joint efforts of Wikimedia Armenia and ArmDiving divers’ club. The logo is an unfinished globe made of puzzle pieces with symbols (including Armenian “v” letter) from different sign systems written on them. The 2m wide, 2m high logo (the largest in the world) was made in Armenia for the annual meeting of the Central and Eastern Europe Wikimedia affiliates, Wikimedia CEE Meeting that the country hosted in August 2016 in Dilijan.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.mediamax.am/en/news/special-report/25635/ |title=World’s largest Wikipedia logo now sits on bottom of Lake Sevan}}</ref>
==Trademark==
{{Expand section|registration status in the USA and other countries|date=September 2011}}
The (former) logo was registered as a European [[Community Trade Mark]] by Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. The trade mark bears a filing date of 31 January 2008 and a registration date of 20 January 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ipo.gov.uk/tmcase/Results/4/EU006671838?legacySearch=False |title=Case details for Community Trade Mark E6671838 |work=ipo.gov.uk |publisher=UK Intellectual Property Office |date=January 20, 2009|accessdate=December 18, 2013}}</ref>
==Logos==
{| border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid #aaa"
|- align=center
!height="150px" bgcolor="#F9F9F9" | [[Image:Old wikipedia logo.png|120px]]
!height="150px" bgcolor="#F9F9F9" | [[Image:Wikipedia-2nd-logo.png|135px]]
!height="150px" bgcolor="#F9F9F9" | [[Image:Wikipedia-logo-en.png|135px]]
!height="150px" bgcolor="#F9F9F9" | [[File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-en.svg|135px]]
|-
!width="150px" colspan="1" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" | 2001 (tentative)
!width="150px" colspan="1" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" | 2001–2003
!width="150px" colspan="1" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" | 2003–2010
!width="150px" colspan="1" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" | 2010–present
|}
==See also==
* [[Wikipedia:Logos|Content guideline: using logos on Wikipedia]]
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
* [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/wikipedia-in-3d/ Wikimedia Blog: Wikipedia in 3D] – 3D version of the Wikipedia logo unveiled; description of the new puzzle globe logo
* [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/a-new-look-for-wikipedia/ Wikimedia Blog: A new look for Wikipedia]
* {{srlink|Wikipedia:Wikipedia logos|Wikipedia:Wikipedia logos}}
{{Wikipedia}}
[[Category:Logos|Wikipedia]]
[[Category:Wikipedia|logo]]
[[File:Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg|thumb|Wikipedia's desktop logo]]
{{multiple image
|align = right|total_width = 350
|footer = Wikipedia logos used on the mobile application and website
|width1 = 758|height1 = 480|image1 = Black W for promotion.png|alt1 =
|width2 = 500|height2 = 85|image2 = Wikipedia wordmark.svg|alt2 =
}}
The '''logo of [[Wikipedia]]''', an [[Internet]]-based free multilingual [[encyclopedia]], is an unfinished globe constructed from [[Jigsaw puzzle|jigsaw]] pieces—some pieces are missing at the top—inscribed with [[glyph]]s from many different [[writing system]]s. 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|open-source]] [[Linux Libertine]] font.<ref name='font1'>{{cite news |title=New Wikipedia-Logo using LinuxLibertine |first=Philipp H |last=Poll |url=http://web.archive.org/web/20100630234543/http://www.linuxlibertine.org:80/index.php?id=1&L=1|publisher=Libertine Open Fonts Project|accessdate=2018-08-09}}</ref><ref>{{citation |url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2010/05/12/126789933/new-globe-new-user-interface-for-wikipedia |title=New Globe, User Interface For Wikipedia|author=Oma L Gallaga|publisher=NPR|date=May 23, 2010}}</ref>
==Puzzle-Globe Design==
[[File:New Wikimedia Foundation Office 12.jpg|thumb|A partial globe hangs in the Wikimedia office.]]
Each piece bears a glyph (a [[Letter (alphabet)|letter]] or other [[grapheme|character]]), or glyphs, symbolizing the multilingualism of Wikipedia. As with the [[Latin alphabet|Latin letter]] “W”, these glyphs are in most cases the first glyph or glyphs of the name “Wikipedia” rendered in that language. They are as follows:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_official_marks/About_the_official_Marks#What_characters_are_on_the_Wikipedia_puzzle_globe.3F|title=What characters are on the Wikipedia puzzle globe?}}</ref>
*Near the center is [[Latin letters|Latin]] <span style="font-family:Garamond, Adobe Garamond Pro, Warnock, Warnock Pro, Bodoni, Bodoni MT, Goudy Old Style, Musica, serif">{{angbr|W}}</span><!--specifies common fonts that have the crossed-V style of W-->. Above that is [[Japanese character|Japanese]] {{angbr|[[katakana|ウィ]]}} ''wi''; below it are [[Cyrillic script|Cyrillic]] {{angbr|[[I (Cyrillic)|И]]}} ''i'', [[Hebrew alphabet|Hebrew]] {{angbr|{{lang|he|[[Waw (letter)#Hebrew|ו]]}}}} ''w'', and (barely visible at the bottom) [[Tamil alphabet|Tamil]] {{angbr|[[Tamil script|வி]]}} ''vi''.
*To the left of the <span style="font-family:Garamond, Adobe Garamond Pro, Warnock, Warnock Pro, Bodoni, Bodoni MT, Goudy Old Style, Musica, serif">{{angbr|W}}</span> is [[Greek alphabet|Greek]] {{angbr|[[Ω]]}} ''ō'', and below that are [[Chinese characters|Chinese]] {{angbr|[[:wikt:維|維]]}} ''wéi'',<ref>see [[:zh-classical:維基大典|維基大典]]</ref> [[Kannada alphabet|Kannada]] {{angbr|{{lang|kn|[[Kannada alphabet|ವಿ]]}}}} ''vi'', and (barely visible at the bottom) [[Tibetan alphabet|Tibetan]] {{angbr|{{bo-textonly|[[Tibetan script|ཝི]]}}}} ''wi''.
*At left, from the top down, are [[Armenian alphabet|Armenian]] {{angbr|[[Վ]]}} ''v'', [[Cambodian alphabet|Cambodian]] {{angbr|{{lang|km|[[Cambodian alphabet|វិ]]}}}} ''vĕ'' (lying on its side), [[Bengali alphabet|Bengali]] {{angbr|[[Bengali alphabet|উ]]}} ''U'', [[Devanagari alphabet|Devanagari]] [[Devanagari|वि]] ''vi'', and [[Georgian alphabet|Georgian]] {{angbr|[[Georgian alphabet|ვ]]}} ''v''.
*The right-most column is [[Ethiopic alphabet|Ethiopic]] {{angbr|[[Ge'ez script|ው]]}} ''wə'', [[Arabic script|Arabic]] {{angbr|<big>{{lang|ar|[[Waw (letter)#Arabic|و]]}}</big>}} ''w'', [[Hangul|Korean]] {{angbr|[[hangul|위]]}} ''wi'', and [[Thai alphabet|Thai]] {{angbr|[[Thai alphabet|วิ]]}} ''wi''.
The empty space at the top represents the incomplete nature of the project, the articles and languages yet to be added.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}.
==History==
[[File:Wikipedia Logo 1.0.png|thumb|Wikipedia's logo used from 2003 until 2010]]
[[File:Paul Stansifer at the Wikimedia Foundation in front of the Wikipedia Puzzle Globe Logo.jpg|thumb|right|Logo creator Paul Stansifer at the Wikimedia Foundation in front of the ''Wikipedia Puzzle Globe Logo'' sculpture in May 2012]]
{{selfref|See [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia logos]] for details of previous logos, including the glyphs used.}}
The design of "W{{smallcaps all|IKIPEDI}}A" text beneath a globe, with the interlocking-V W and large A, was designed by Wikipedia user The Cunctator for a November 2001 logo contest.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lHdi1CEPLb4C&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&dq=wikipedia+logo+cunctator&source=bl&ots=Fhmq5jONGp&sig=WGN6OWcVWcht1HGDBUiYBXHqDEs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiDy7u1zuDcAhVGPN8KHYE3AykQ6AEwCnoECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=wikipedia%20logo%20cunctator&f=false|title=How Wikipedia Works: And how You Can be a Part of it|last1=Ayers|first1=Phoebe|last2=Matthews|first2=Charles|last3=Ayers|first3=Ben|page=47|date=2008|publisher=No Starch Press}}</ref> An initial design of the puzzle-globe logo was created by Paul Stansifer, a then 17-year-old Wikipedia user, whose entry [[meta:International logo contest/Results|won a design competition]] run by the site in 2003. Another Wikipedia user, David Friedland, subsequently improved the logo by changing the styling of the jigsaw pieces so that their boundaries seemed indented and simplified their contents to be a single glyph per piece, rather than a jumble of nonsense multilingual text.<ref name="NYT-20070625">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/25/technology/25wikipedia.html?fta=y |title=Some Errors Defy Fixes: A Typo in Wikipedia’s Logo Fractures the Sanskrit |author=Noam Cohen |date=June 25, 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> In the process, some errors were introduced.<ref name="NYT-20070625"/> In particular, one piece of [[Devanagari script]] and one piece of Japanese [[katakana]] were incorrectly rendered.<ref>"[https://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/06/24/technology/20070625_WIKIPEDIA_GRAPHIC.html This Logo Is a Work in Progress]." ''[[The New York Times]]''. June 24, 2007. Retrieved on July 11, 2011.</ref> Also, the [[Chinese character]] (袓) has no immediate connection with Wikipedia.
==Current logo==
[[File:Glyphs in Wikipedia logo.png|thumb|Glyphs contained in the new logotype]]
[[File:Wikimania2007 wikiball 127.jpg|thumb|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.<ref>It was torn down after the event. See [[:Commons:Category:Wikimania 2007 Wikiball|this Category of Commons images]] for a sense of its size.</ref> This led to a renewed interest in getting a proper 3D model for the logo.
[[File:Wikimania 2007 puzzle ball.jpg|thumb|The 3D Wikipedia puzzle from Wikimania 2007]]
By 2007, users on [[listserv]]s 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."<ref name="NYT-20070625"/> {{nihongo|Kizu Naoko|木津 尚子}}<!--Leave name in Japanese order for now, pending dispute discussion-->, 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."<ref name="NYT-20070625"/>
In late 2009, the Wikimedia Foundation undertook to fix the errors and generally update the puzzle globe logo. Among other concerns, the original logo did not scale well and some letters appeared distorted.<ref>[http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/around_the_world_in_51_characters.php "brand new" about new logo]</ref> For the new logo, the Wikimedia Foundation defined which characters appear on the "hidden" puzzle pieces, and had a three-dimensional computer model of the globe created to allow the generation of other views.<ref>[http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/05/13/wikipedia-in-3d/ Wikimedia blog – Wikipedia in 3d]</ref> A partial 3D globe was commissioned for the Wikimedia office.<ref>The work was done by the [http://www.becausewecan.org/Wiki_globe Because We Can] studio, based on the new digital 3D model.</ref>
The logo was rolled out on the projects in May 2010. It features the new 3D rendering of the puzzle globe, with corrected characters (and the [[Klingon language|Klingon]] character replaced by a [[Ge'ez script|Ge'ez]] character). The [[wordmark]] has been modified from the [[Hoefler Text]] font to the open-source [[Linux Libertine]] font, and the subtitle is no longer italicized. The "W" character, which was used in various other places in Wikipedia (such as the [[favicon]]) and was a "distinctive part of the Wikipedia brand", was stylized as crossed V's in the original logo, <span style="font-family:Garamond, Adobe Garamond Pro, Warnock, Warnock Pro, Bondoni, Bondoni MT, Goudy Old Style, Musica, serif">{{angbr|W}}</span>, while the W in Linux Libertine is rendered with a single line. To provide the traditional appearance of the Wikipedia "W", a "crossed" W was added as an [[OpenType]] variant to the Linux Libertine font.<ref name="font1" />
On October 24, 2014, the Wikimedia Foundation released the logo, along with all other logos belonging to the Foundation, under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/24/wikimedia-logos-have-been-freed/ |title=Wikimedia Logos Have Been Freed! « Wikimedia blog}}</ref>
On September 29, 2017, the logo of Wikipedia was submerged to the bottom of [[Armenia|Armenia’s]] [[Lake Sevan]] thanks to the joint efforts of Wikimedia Armenia and ArmDiving divers’ club. The logo is an unfinished globe made of puzzle pieces with symbols (including Armenian “v” letter) from different sign systems written on them. The 2m wide, 2m high logo (the largest in the world) was made in Armenia for the annual meeting of the Central and Eastern Europe Wikimedia affiliates, Wikimedia CEE Meeting that the country hosted in August 2016 in Dilijan.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.mediamax.am/en/news/special-report/25635/ |title=World’s largest Wikipedia logo now sits on bottom of Lake Sevan}}</ref>
==Trademark==
{{Expand section|registration status in the USA and other countries|date=September 2011}}
The (former) logo was registered as a European [[Community Trade Mark]] by Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. The trade mark bears a filing date of 31 January 2008 and a registration date of 20 January 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ipo.gov.uk/tmcase/Results/4/EU006671838?legacySearch=False |title=Case details for Community Trade Mark E6671838 |work=ipo.gov.uk |publisher=UK Intellectual Property Office |date=January 20, 2009|accessdate=December 18, 2013}}</ref>
==Logos==
{| border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid #aaa"
|- align=center
!height="150px" bgcolor="#F9F9F9" | [[Image:Old wikipedia logo.png|120px]]
!height="150px" bgcolor="#F9F9F9" | [[Image:Wikipedia-2nd-logo.png|135px]]
!height="150px" bgcolor="#F9F9F9" | [[Image:Wikipedia-logo-en.png|135px]]
!height="150px" bgcolor="#F9F9F9" | [[File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-en.svg|135px]]
|-
!width="150px" colspan="1" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" | 2001 (tentative)
!width="150px" colspan="1" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" | 2001–2003
!width="150px" colspan="1" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" | 2003–2010
!width="150px" colspan="1" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" | 2010–present
|}
==See also==
* [[Wikipedia:Logos|Content guideline: using logos on Wikipedia]]
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
* [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/wikipedia-in-3d/ Wikimedia Blog: Wikipedia in 3D] – 3D version of the Wikipedia logo unveiled; description of the new puzzle globe logo
* [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/a-new-look-for-wikipedia/ Wikimedia Blog: A new look for Wikipedia]
* {{srlink|Wikipedia:Wikipedia logos|Wikipedia:Wikipedia logos}}
{{Wikipedia}}
[[Category:Logos|Wikipedia]]
[[Category:Wikipedia|logo]]
