page_title: Wikipedia logo
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Wikipedia logo / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Paul Stansifer at the Wikimedia Foundation office in San Francisco in front of the Wikipedia Puzzle Globe Logo, which he helped to design.
context_page_description: The logo of Wikipedia 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.
context_section_description: The design of "WIKIPEDIA" 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. An initial design of the puzzle-globe logo was created by Paul Stansifer, a then 17-year-old Wikipedia user, whose entry 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. In the process, some errors were introduced. In particular, one piece of Devanagari script, and one piece of Japanese katakana were incorrectly rendered. Also, the Chinese character (袓) has no immediate connection with Wikipedia.
caption: Logo creator Paul Stansifer at the Wikimedia Foundation in front of the Wikipedia Puzzle Globe Logo sculpture in May 2012
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