File talk:Wikipedia.jpg

File:Vikipedio.jpg
Comment by the artist: This was an idea I had for the new Wikipedia logo font. I believe it complies with the specifications and could be used with any logo design. The "WIKI" part represents the spontaneity with which an article can be edited while the "PEDIA" is similar to the current font, representing the organized and comprehensive nature of a text encyclopedia.
NOTE: The idea for the name-only logo was inspired by the Cologne Blue layout (which I prefer to the standard one). Anyone may feel free to use it in their own proposal.

I thought that we've abbendond the whole label idea due to multilengual issues... Would we have a different implementation of this idea for any charecter set? One for Latin, one for Cyrilic, one for Hebrew, one for Arabic, one for Japanease, etc? --Liad Weinberger
I like it very much. Can I steal it ? Kpjas
Whether or not a label is used is yet to be decided but here is one reason to do so: whatever the alphabet being used by the speaker of a language, the Wikipedia website must still be accessed by typing "wikipedia.org".
- Actually, the Esperanto Wikipedia is also at www.vikipedio.org -- en:User:Kwekubo

FYI, Rg94, it appears that User:Treplov accidentally uploaded a file called Wikipedia.jpg, the same as your en.wikipedia version on the display page. It overwrote yours, so you may want to rename yours and upload it.

That would be me. I'm not sure how to undo this. Help? - Treplov

Go to the image page (by clicking on the image) and click "(rev)" by the image you want to revert to. Re-upload with a different name. Paullusmagnus 12:43, 18 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Very nice, but unfortunately not easy to adapt to the various encyclopedias Ant

This one has my vote.

wi can vote now ? 195.146.236.155 23:19 23 Jul 2003 (UTC)

it was mi ;op ...But, sorry Ant....If wi publish logo on vector file, everybody could disign it in their lingual

Of course Oliez. If you add the legs and everything around, no problem. But I dunno how to do a vector logo; so I might just as well give up making propositions and let professionals do it. User:Anthere

Can this sort of stylising be done in all languages, though? Japanese katakana, Arabic etc.? en:User:Kwekubo

Well, sure you can write in other alphabets (Arabic, Hebrew and others) over the same background, but can you stylise the area correspondent to the English 'Wiki-'? And would that stylisation even make sense in other languages? It would require, in my opinion, changing local names of Wikipedia to make them correspond with the idea of one excited section of text, and one formal section, and that would be ludicrous. I just don't think it could work -- en:User:Kwekubo

Always have WikiPEDIA at the left, showing the international brand, and localized version at the right, like the hebrew or arabic versions shown here. Would work. Only problems might be languages that use the same term for Wikipedia. For German, the localized version cut be in Fraktur or Sütterlin perhaps? -- en:User:JeLuF, 20:30 Jul 25 2003 UTC

I entirely and comletely disagree with the idea of an English language 'stamp' on every Wikipedia. This project is meant to find international logos - hence the name of the page where they are being shown - not to find logos where English is displayed as being dominant over other languages. I would find it intolerable to have English portrayed as the international standard language for Wikipedia, because quite simply it is not, JeLuf. Not by any means. -- Kwekubo

I like the colors and the fonts but only zeros and ones and text looks inanimate. There should be a little figure like a flower, a cirlce or an ant. You should try to adopt the ant of logo 3/16/17. --Nichtich

Might be a bit too jazzy -- Good thinking as far as creating an international style that can be modified. It should probably also be more logo-like and less text like Squarish --Stevertigo 20:20 31 Jul 2003 (UTC)

No one seems to have responded to my query above, so perhaps I'll rephrase it here. The name for Wikipedia in most non-English languages appears to be a phonetic reproduction of the English original (or as close as possible, as the language permits). This means that they aren't necessarily related to the language's own words for encyclop(a)edia and (if applicable) wiki. Therefore, the symbolism of an excited Wiki combined with a stately pediA is lost. And even if the connection with the symbolism chances to match up, does the designer have access to stylised non-English fonts in the same excited style? -- Kwekubo

I moved the head logo that Treplov made to Image:Head_logo.jpg. I will be making an entry for it on the 75-100 page (if it hasn't already been done). マイカル 15:27, 18 Aug 2003 (UTC)