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Archive 1 |
That is part of the fair use policy as it appears now. If this is the result of some weird edit, and not part of official Wikipedia policy, let me know.
Otherwise, the Wikipedia logo itself violates this policy by using a copyrighted/commercial font for the WikipediA title. Free fonts are availible, Wikipedia should use them. -- Nerd42 03:46, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm sorry, but this is just awesome. -- Nerd42 ( talk) 16:30, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
I don't know what discussion above if any is relevant to the current revision of the logo, but the globe still has visible light fringes around the edges on the Monobook skin. Does anyone know of a high-res/alpha-blended version of the logo which could be used to create a version of the logo for the Monobook skin, matted onto the skin's background image? See also the recent discussion (that prompted this) at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Anti-aliasing of the Wikipedia globe. BigBlueFish 17:45, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
Please add interwiki link for Serbian language Wikipedia. The link is
[[sr:Слика:Wiki.png]]
Thank you. -- Branislav Jovanovic 17:37, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
The main Wikipedia logo has the words "The Free Encyclopedia" in an italic font. These words are very ugly, being full of aliasing. It is a shame that the beautiful multilingual spherical jigsaw is spoilt by this. Can someone improve it? At this size of text, I think an upright font would come out better than an anti-aliased italic font. The italic version could still be used at large sizes or higher resolutions. Gdr 13:01, 2004 Jul 16 (UTC)
I've checked the logo in the
GIMP and it also shows a white fringe around the text. Also,
here's what the logo looks like with a black background in
Mozilla Firefox. The image has areas of 100% opacity, and areas of 0% opacity; there's nothing in between. I'm fairly certain that Firefox correctly supports PNG transparency, and I know the GIMP does. Don't mind me. I don't know how to read. --
Wapcaplet 19:40, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Use these instructions to add png transparency to IE 5.5 and IE 6 http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/ I've always wanted this code to be added to the main Wikipedia HTML because its not fair that we all have to use non alpha transparent pngs just because of ie. - ROSSY MILES 08:04, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
I would like to request the the image at Image:Wiki.png be updated from the picture at Image:Wiki alpha.png. The reason for this is that the picture currently in use is designed to be placed atop a white background, but since then the background has beeen changed to an image of varying shades of grey. This causes a white border around the elements of the picture due to its anti-aliasing being disigned for a white background. The image that I am proposing for upload utilizes an alpha channel which allows it to look nice when placed atop any lightly colored backround or image such as the one used in monobook. The disadvantage in using this image is that it is 10 kilobytes larger in filesize due to the fact that alpha transparency requires 24-bit color as opposed to the 8-bit color palette being used by the current image. Thank you. -- Jecowa 02:40, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
DIV.portlet#p-logo A {display: none} DIV.portlet#p-logo {background-image: url(" http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5b/Wiki_alpha.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: center center}
- ROSSY MILES (ロシマイルス) TALK 10:10, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Dear administrator, please add the following interwikis:
[[es:Imagen:Wiki.png]]
[[ia:Imagine:Wiki.png]]
Thank you in advance, Julian Mendez 10:13, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
[[bs:Slika:Wiki.png]]
-- Emx 20:32, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
{{ editprotected}}
I have made a much better image, which you can find here. It's antialiased better, so there won't be white spots. ~ Ed B oy [c] 15:02, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
Why do I still see the old image from last year? For example I see Ω here, but in the left hand corner logo I still see ’Ω? -- Steinn inn 02:42, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
I would love to have access to the logo source files. Not only the vectorized text but also to the 3d files or whatever was used to create that fancy ball. Noparticular reason, just for studying it. Thanks.-- Alexandre Van de Sande 13:44, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
What are the languages of the other letters on the globe? I would swear that the letter just below the Chinese character is the Kannada character for 'va'...but I don't see Kannada / ka listed on the interlang links above. Am I confused about those links, or am I truly unable to recognize Kannada? Martalli 01:56, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
I noticed this as well, I think someone forgot to update this. I think the logo should be reverted to the September 21, 2006 version, it has no white around it, relatively small filesize, and the proper format. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.74.217.230 ( talk) 01:35, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
I've taken the liberty of converting the updated English and German Wikipedia logos from RGB to Grayscale, saving about 6-7kb of bandwidth per visitor; there doesn't appear to be a visible difference to me. That bandwidth adds up. :) -- brion ( talk) 21:14, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Can this non-free image be used in any Wikipedia article (either directly or indirectly) without detailed rationale ? I'm particularly interested in its appearance in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox and how it measures up to the requirements of the Wikipedia policy at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Logos requiring detail rationale for each article that includes a logo like this one - Bevo ( talk) 20:24, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
{{
editprotected}}
Add this interwiki — [[mk:Слика:Wiki.png]]
— Thank you in advance,
Brainmachine (
talk) 09:44, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
{{
editprotected}}
Please add this interwiki: [[it:File:Wiki.png]]
Thank you in advance--
Trixt (
talk) 20:51, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
{{ editprotected}}
The Vietnamese Wikipedia (vi:)'s version of this page has some background information and instructions for sysops and interested "doodlers":
[[vi:Tập tin:Wiki.png]]
Thanks.
– Minh Nguyễn ( talk, contribs) 00:52, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
Is there a reason that the Sanskrit on the logo has never been fixed? It's supposed to be the syllable "wi" in Sanskrit, but instead it's something that is not valid Sanskrit writing, because the vowel mark ("i") is on the wrong side of the "w". (It looks like it might be "wa<consonant>i", with the consonant mysteriously missing.) 69.159.196.72 ( talk) 16:50, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
I suggest to return file into old version, the reason is: It was much nicer image. We can start voting for that. Note: If you wish the image to change back to the old version for yourself, please see here.
I could make the file even smaller by using PNGOUT, it is 61 bytes smaller now. It's not much, but multiply that by millions of viewers :)
If you want, it's here. Nineko ( talk) 18:28, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
File:Wiki (Optimized).png User:Hello71 00:46, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
Old: File:Wiki.png 24-bit RGB + 8-bit alpha 19,670 bytes |
New: File:Wiki (Optimized).png File:Wiki (Optimized).png 8-bit greyscale + 8-bit alpha 11,069 bytes |
{{
editprotected}}
What if we made the globe spin? You know, the one above "Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia". Gang sta E B EA (comments welcome!) 01:20, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
When will the icon change? Maybe at the 25th anniversary? Also, is there a colored version because we need one of those. I am tired of staring at the grayscale file. Yoshi24517 ( talk) 03:38, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
As far as I know, per [1], this image has been released under a free licence. How should this be reflected here in its description? -- Blahma ( talk) 19:08, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
This
edit request to
File:Wiki.png has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
Hello 77.97.154.159 ( talk) 18:38, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
We're approaching 5M articles, so why don't we temporarily modify the logo when we get there? Other WPs have done it for much smaller milestones. 24.69.41.177 ( talk) 20:35, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/5 millionth article logo. Thanks. Mz7 ( talk) 03:24, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
This
edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
Per the outcome of the TFD, {{ Non-free Wikimedia logo}} ought to be replaced with {{ Copyright by Wikimedia}} in this article. Thanks! Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk, contributions) 09:37, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
This
edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
This image should have an {{ information}}
Along the lines of ...
{{information
|Description= Wikipedia project logo
|Source= Wikimedia Foundation
|Permission= Wikimedia logo}}
or more detailed if someone has the full attribution for the project logo.
Sfan00 IMG (
talk) 20:56, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
I fixed the "white fringe around the edges problem" and fixed what looked like a weird dent in the upper right corner. However, I've been having problems making the background transparent. I think that this one could be a great replacement, if someone would please add transparency to it. The new file is Image:Wiki without white fringe.png. [[User:Mike Storm| Mike Storm (Talk)]] 16:46, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
What is the distinction between this and Image:WikiPNG? That later was vandalized (seems unprotected) by User:Shquid earlier today, and for a short time appeared on all pages (at least in Foxfire). Should PNG page be protected as well? Wondering, -- Infrogmation 16:05, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I have moved Stevertigo's alternate version to Image:Wiki_partial_background.png. -- Brion 00:04 Mar 15, 2003 (UTC)
One of the most prominent symbols on the current logo is the Chinese character / kanji 祖, meaning "ancestor". Does anyone know why this character was chosen? I think it might make more sense to use a character with more relevance to the project. I was thinking maybe 學 for "study" or maybe 書 for "book". -spencer195 01:16, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I would guess it was random Superm401 06:24, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 |
That is part of the fair use policy as it appears now. If this is the result of some weird edit, and not part of official Wikipedia policy, let me know.
Otherwise, the Wikipedia logo itself violates this policy by using a copyrighted/commercial font for the WikipediA title. Free fonts are availible, Wikipedia should use them. -- Nerd42 03:46, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm sorry, but this is just awesome. -- Nerd42 ( talk) 16:30, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
I don't know what discussion above if any is relevant to the current revision of the logo, but the globe still has visible light fringes around the edges on the Monobook skin. Does anyone know of a high-res/alpha-blended version of the logo which could be used to create a version of the logo for the Monobook skin, matted onto the skin's background image? See also the recent discussion (that prompted this) at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Anti-aliasing of the Wikipedia globe. BigBlueFish 17:45, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
Please add interwiki link for Serbian language Wikipedia. The link is
[[sr:Слика:Wiki.png]]
Thank you. -- Branislav Jovanovic 17:37, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
The main Wikipedia logo has the words "The Free Encyclopedia" in an italic font. These words are very ugly, being full of aliasing. It is a shame that the beautiful multilingual spherical jigsaw is spoilt by this. Can someone improve it? At this size of text, I think an upright font would come out better than an anti-aliased italic font. The italic version could still be used at large sizes or higher resolutions. Gdr 13:01, 2004 Jul 16 (UTC)
I've checked the logo in the
GIMP and it also shows a white fringe around the text. Also,
here's what the logo looks like with a black background in
Mozilla Firefox. The image has areas of 100% opacity, and areas of 0% opacity; there's nothing in between. I'm fairly certain that Firefox correctly supports PNG transparency, and I know the GIMP does. Don't mind me. I don't know how to read. --
Wapcaplet 19:40, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Use these instructions to add png transparency to IE 5.5 and IE 6 http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/ I've always wanted this code to be added to the main Wikipedia HTML because its not fair that we all have to use non alpha transparent pngs just because of ie. - ROSSY MILES 08:04, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
I would like to request the the image at Image:Wiki.png be updated from the picture at Image:Wiki alpha.png. The reason for this is that the picture currently in use is designed to be placed atop a white background, but since then the background has beeen changed to an image of varying shades of grey. This causes a white border around the elements of the picture due to its anti-aliasing being disigned for a white background. The image that I am proposing for upload utilizes an alpha channel which allows it to look nice when placed atop any lightly colored backround or image such as the one used in monobook. The disadvantage in using this image is that it is 10 kilobytes larger in filesize due to the fact that alpha transparency requires 24-bit color as opposed to the 8-bit color palette being used by the current image. Thank you. -- Jecowa 02:40, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
DIV.portlet#p-logo A {display: none} DIV.portlet#p-logo {background-image: url(" http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5b/Wiki_alpha.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: center center}
- ROSSY MILES (ロシマイルス) TALK 10:10, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Dear administrator, please add the following interwikis:
[[es:Imagen:Wiki.png]]
[[ia:Imagine:Wiki.png]]
Thank you in advance, Julian Mendez 10:13, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
[[bs:Slika:Wiki.png]]
-- Emx 20:32, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
{{ editprotected}}
I have made a much better image, which you can find here. It's antialiased better, so there won't be white spots. ~ Ed B oy [c] 15:02, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
Why do I still see the old image from last year? For example I see Ω here, but in the left hand corner logo I still see ’Ω? -- Steinn inn 02:42, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
I would love to have access to the logo source files. Not only the vectorized text but also to the 3d files or whatever was used to create that fancy ball. Noparticular reason, just for studying it. Thanks.-- Alexandre Van de Sande 13:44, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
What are the languages of the other letters on the globe? I would swear that the letter just below the Chinese character is the Kannada character for 'va'...but I don't see Kannada / ka listed on the interlang links above. Am I confused about those links, or am I truly unable to recognize Kannada? Martalli 01:56, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
I noticed this as well, I think someone forgot to update this. I think the logo should be reverted to the September 21, 2006 version, it has no white around it, relatively small filesize, and the proper format. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.74.217.230 ( talk) 01:35, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
I've taken the liberty of converting the updated English and German Wikipedia logos from RGB to Grayscale, saving about 6-7kb of bandwidth per visitor; there doesn't appear to be a visible difference to me. That bandwidth adds up. :) -- brion ( talk) 21:14, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Can this non-free image be used in any Wikipedia article (either directly or indirectly) without detailed rationale ? I'm particularly interested in its appearance in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox and how it measures up to the requirements of the Wikipedia policy at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Logos requiring detail rationale for each article that includes a logo like this one - Bevo ( talk) 20:24, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
{{
editprotected}}
Add this interwiki — [[mk:Слика:Wiki.png]]
— Thank you in advance,
Brainmachine (
talk) 09:44, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
{{
editprotected}}
Please add this interwiki: [[it:File:Wiki.png]]
Thank you in advance--
Trixt (
talk) 20:51, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
{{ editprotected}}
The Vietnamese Wikipedia (vi:)'s version of this page has some background information and instructions for sysops and interested "doodlers":
[[vi:Tập tin:Wiki.png]]
Thanks.
– Minh Nguyễn ( talk, contribs) 00:52, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
Is there a reason that the Sanskrit on the logo has never been fixed? It's supposed to be the syllable "wi" in Sanskrit, but instead it's something that is not valid Sanskrit writing, because the vowel mark ("i") is on the wrong side of the "w". (It looks like it might be "wa<consonant>i", with the consonant mysteriously missing.) 69.159.196.72 ( talk) 16:50, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
I suggest to return file into old version, the reason is: It was much nicer image. We can start voting for that. Note: If you wish the image to change back to the old version for yourself, please see here.
I could make the file even smaller by using PNGOUT, it is 61 bytes smaller now. It's not much, but multiply that by millions of viewers :)
If you want, it's here. Nineko ( talk) 18:28, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
File:Wiki (Optimized).png User:Hello71 00:46, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
Old: File:Wiki.png 24-bit RGB + 8-bit alpha 19,670 bytes |
New: File:Wiki (Optimized).png File:Wiki (Optimized).png 8-bit greyscale + 8-bit alpha 11,069 bytes |
{{
editprotected}}
What if we made the globe spin? You know, the one above "Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia". Gang sta E B EA (comments welcome!) 01:20, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
When will the icon change? Maybe at the 25th anniversary? Also, is there a colored version because we need one of those. I am tired of staring at the grayscale file. Yoshi24517 ( talk) 03:38, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
As far as I know, per [1], this image has been released under a free licence. How should this be reflected here in its description? -- Blahma ( talk) 19:08, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
This
edit request to
File:Wiki.png has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
Hello 77.97.154.159 ( talk) 18:38, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
We're approaching 5M articles, so why don't we temporarily modify the logo when we get there? Other WPs have done it for much smaller milestones. 24.69.41.177 ( talk) 20:35, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/5 millionth article logo. Thanks. Mz7 ( talk) 03:24, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
This
edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
Per the outcome of the TFD, {{ Non-free Wikimedia logo}} ought to be replaced with {{ Copyright by Wikimedia}} in this article. Thanks! Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk, contributions) 09:37, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
This
edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
This image should have an {{ information}}
Along the lines of ...
{{information
|Description= Wikipedia project logo
|Source= Wikimedia Foundation
|Permission= Wikimedia logo}}
or more detailed if someone has the full attribution for the project logo.
Sfan00 IMG (
talk) 20:56, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
I fixed the "white fringe around the edges problem" and fixed what looked like a weird dent in the upper right corner. However, I've been having problems making the background transparent. I think that this one could be a great replacement, if someone would please add transparency to it. The new file is Image:Wiki without white fringe.png. [[User:Mike Storm| Mike Storm (Talk)]] 16:46, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
What is the distinction between this and Image:WikiPNG? That later was vandalized (seems unprotected) by User:Shquid earlier today, and for a short time appeared on all pages (at least in Foxfire). Should PNG page be protected as well? Wondering, -- Infrogmation 16:05, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I have moved Stevertigo's alternate version to Image:Wiki_partial_background.png. -- Brion 00:04 Mar 15, 2003 (UTC)
One of the most prominent symbols on the current logo is the Chinese character / kanji 祖, meaning "ancestor". Does anyone know why this character was chosen? I think it might make more sense to use a character with more relevance to the project. I was thinking maybe 學 for "study" or maybe 書 for "book". -spencer195 01:16, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I would guess it was random Superm401 06:24, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)