Wikipedia: Logos and slogans
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Slogans
Wikipedia's semi-official slogan is:
- Chinese：自由的百科全书
- Danish: Den frie encyklopędi
- Dutch: De vrije encyclopedie
- English: The Free Encyclopedia
- Esperanto: La Libera Enciklopedio
- French: L'encyclopédie libre
- German: die freie Enzyklopädie
- Hebrew: האנציקלופדיה החופשית
- Irish: An Chiclipéid Shaor
- Italian: L'enciclopedia libera
- Icelandic: Frjįlsa alfręšioršabókin
- Japanese: フリー百科事典
- Kurdish: Ensīklopediya azad
- Polish: Wolna encyklopedia
- Serbian: Слободна енциклопедија
- Spanish: La Enciclopedia Libre (note that Enciclopedia Libre is also the name of a forked-off project)
- Swedish: Den fria encyklopedin
- Thai: สารานุกรมเสรี มากมีความรู้แบ่งปัน หลุดพ้นความสามัญสู่ปัญญาเลิศ
- Turkish: Özgür ansiklopedi
- Vietnamese: Bįch khoa tự do
Others suggested slogans are:
- Knowledge Shared
- Out of mediocrity, excellence!
- You can edit this page right now!
See also m:Wikipedia Motto
Logos
Prehistoric (non)logo
On January 15, 2001, Wikipedia's first day of independent existence, Jimbo Wales used the American flag as a temporary Wikipedia logo. It wasn't intended to be permanent. See meta:OldWikiPediaLogo for the old logo discussion.
The original official logo
Wikipedia's first true logo was an image that was originally submitted as a Nupedia logo. Jimbo thought it would be a much better logo than the flag, and it remained for the next eight months.
The pre-current logo
In November 2001, Wikipedians began suggesting new logos. A m:Logo suggestions/leading candidates shortlist of leading candidates was chosen. The winner was the logo contributed by The Cunctator.
The quotation:
- Man is distinguished, not only by his reason, but by this singular passion from other animals, which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
Taken from Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan, Part I, Chapter VI:
- Desire to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man: so that man is distinguished, not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion from other animals; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of sense, by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
The late-comer
After the winning logo was chosen, Mark Ryan designed one in a similar style, but in colour. It was for some time used as the Meta logo.
The current logo
The international effort
Because of its English text, the current logo is not ideal for the Wikipedias in other languages. Some wikis chose a similar design with text in their own languages (e.g. the Spanish Wikpedia). Others used the English logo but added the color of a national flag (most of the Nordic language projects, Danish, for example) or a translation of "The Free Encyclopedia" (e.g. German). Still other designed a completely different logo (e.g. the French Wikipedia).
An effort is currently under way to design and choose a single logo suitable for use Wikipedia-wide. See m:International logo contest for more details.
See also
- Wikipedia:Banners and buttons for other Wikipedia graphics
