The

logo A logo (abbreviation of logotype; ) is a graphic mark, emblem, or symbol used to aid and promote public identification and recognition. It may be of an abstract or figurative design or include the text of the name it represents as in a wo ...

Wikipedia Wikipedia is a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and using a wiki-based editing system. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read refer ...

, a free

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, is an unfinished

globe A globe is a spherical model of Earth, of some other celestial body, or of the celestial sphere. Globes serve purposes similar to maps, but unlike maps, they do not distort the surface that they portray except to scale it down. A model glo ...

constructed from jigsaw pieces—some pieces are missing at the top—each inscribed with a

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from a different

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. As displayed on the web pages of the English-language edition of the project, there is the wordmark "WA" under the globe, and below that, the text "The Free Encyclopedia" in the free

open-source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized so ...

Linux Libertine Linux Libertine is a digital typeface created by the Libertine Open Fonts Project, which aims to create free and open alternatives to proprietary typefaces such as Times New Roman. It is developed with the free font editor FontForge and is lice ...

font.

Puzzle-globe design

Each piece bears a glyph (a letter or other

character Character or Characters may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Literature * ''Character'' (novel), a 1936 Dutch novel by Ferdinand Bordewijk * ''Characters'' (Theophrastus), a classical Greek set of character sketches attributed to The ...

), or glyphs, symbolizing the multilingualism of Wikipedia. As with the 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: *At left, from the top down, are Armenian ''v'', Cambodian ''vĕ'' (lying on its side),

Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the w ...

''U'',

Devanagari Devanagari ( ; , , Sanskrit pronunciation: ), also called Nagari (),Kathleen Kuiper (2010), The Culture of India, New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, , page 83 is a left-to-right abugida (a type of segmental writing system), based on the ...

वि ''vi'', and Georgian ''v''. *In the middle-left column is

Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...

''ō'', and below that are Chinese ''wéi'',

Kannada Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native s ...

''vi'', and (barely visible at the bottom)

Tibetan Tibetan may mean: * of, from, or related to Tibet * Tibetan people, an ethnic group * Tibetan language: ** Classical Tibetan, the classical language used also as a contemporary written standard ** Standard Tibetan, the most widely used spoken diale ...

''wi''. *In the middle-right column is

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through ...

. Above that is

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

''wi''; below it are

Cyrillic The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking co ...

''i'',

Hebrew Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...

''v'', and (barely visible at the bottom)

Tamil Tamil may refer to: * Tamils, an ethnic group native to India and some other parts of Asia ** Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka also called ilankai tamils **Tamil Malaysians, Tamil people native to Malaysia * Tamil language, na ...

''vi''. *The rightmost column is Ethiopic ''wə'',

Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter ...

''w'',

Korean Korean may refer to: People and culture * Koreans, ethnic group originating in the Korean Peninsula * Korean cuisine * Korean culture * Korean language **Korean alphabet, known as Hangul or Chosŏn'gŭl **Korean dialects and the Jeju language ** ...

''wi'', and Thai ''wi''. The top edge line of the વિ puzzle piece on the rear side of the ball (as seen the 2D character map) crosses through the inwards indentation of the ウィ puzzle piece when viewed from the default front perspective. The empty space at the top represents the incomplete nature of the project, the articles and languages yet to be added.

History

The design of "WA" 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 Devanagari ( ; , , Sanskrit pronunciation: ), also called Nagari (),Kathleen Kuiper (2010), The Culture of India, New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, , page 83 is a left-to-right abugida (a type of segmental Writing systems#Segmental syste ...

, and one piece of Japanese

katakana is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word ''katakana'' means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived f ...

were incorrectly rendered. Also, the

Chinese character Chinese characters () are logograms developed for the writing of Chinese. In addition, they have been adapted to write other East Asian languages, and remain a key component of the Japanese writing system where they are known as ''kanji' ...

(袓) has no immediate connection with Wikipedia.

Current logo

In 2007, a modified 3D model was developed by Wikimedia Taiwan for

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, when they distributed a diameter spherical puzzle based on the logo, that attendees could piece together. It did not add other glyphs 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. This led to a renewed interest in getting a proper 3D model for the logo. Wikimania 2007 puzzle ball

By 2007, users on

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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." , a Wikipedian, said that most Japanese users supported correcting the errors. In an e-mail to Noam Cohen of ''

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'', Kizu said that "It could be an option to leave them as they are. Most people don't take it serious and think the graphical logo is a sort of pot-au-feu of various letters without meaning." 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. 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. A partial 3D globe was commissioned for the Wikimedia office. 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 The Klingons ( ; Klingon: ''tlhIngan'' ) are a fictional species in the science fiction franchise ''Star Trek''. Developed by screenwriter Gene L. Coon in 1967 for the original ''Star Trek'' (''TOS'') series, Klingons were swarthy humanoids c ...

character replaced by a Ge'ez character). The

wordmark __notoc__ A wordmark, word mark, or logotype, is usually a distinct text-only typographic treatment of the name of a company, institution, or product name used for purposes of identification and branding. Examples can be found in the graphic iden ...

has been modified from the

Hoefler Text Hoefler Text is an old-style serif font by Jonathan Hoefler and released by Apple Computer Inc. (now Apple Inc.) in 1991 to showcase advanced type technologies. Intended as a versatile font that is suitable for body text, it takes cues from a r ...

font to the open-source

font, and the subtitle is no longer italicized. The "W" character, which was used in various other places in Wikipedia (such as the

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) and was a "distinctive part of the Wikipedia brand", was stylized as crossed V's in the original logo, , 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 OpenType is a format for scalable computer fonts. It was built on its predecessor TrueType, retaining TrueType's basic structure and adding many intricate data structures for prescribing typographic behavior. OpenType is a registered trademark ...

variant to the Linux Libertine font. On October 24, 2014, the

Wikimedia Foundation The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., or Wikimedia for short and abbreviated as WMF, is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California and registered as a charitable foundation under local laws. Best know ...

released the logo, along with all other logos belonging to the Foundation, under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. On September 29, 2017, the logo of Wikipedia was submerged to the bottom of

Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ''O ...

Lake Sevan Lake Sevan ( hy, Սևանա լիճ, Sevana lich) is the largest body of water in both Armenia and the Caucasus region. It is one of the largest freshwater high-altitude (alpine) lakes in Eurasia. The lake is situated in Gegharkunik Province, ...

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 the Armenian equivalent of "v") 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 Dilijan ( hy, Դիլիջան) is a spa town and urban municipal community in the Tavush Province of Armenia. The town is one of the most important resorts in Armenia, situated within the Dilijan National Park. The forested town is home to nume ...

Trademark

The (former) logo was registered as a European

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by Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. The trade mark bears a filing date of 31 January 2008 and a registration date of 20 January 2009.

Logos

Historical logos

Image:Old wikipedia logo.png, 2001 (tentative) Image:Wiki logo The Cunctator.png, 2001–2003 Wikipedia 2NDLogo -FR.png, Logo of

French Wikipedia The French Wikipedia (french: Wikipédia en français) is the French-language edition of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. This edition was started on 23 March 2001, two months after the official creation of Wikipedia. It has articl ...

(2002–2003) Wikipedia 2NDLogo -SE (transp).png, Logo of

Swedish Wikipedia The Swedish Wikipedia ( sv, Svenskspråkiga Wikipedia) is the Swedish-language edition of Wikipedia and was started on the 23 of May 2001. It is currently the largest Wikipedia by article count with its current articles, it has a ''Wikipedia ...

(2003) Image:Old version of the Wikipedia logo used until 2010 (big, English).png , 2003–2010 Image: Wikipedia-logo-v2-en.svg, 2010–present

Special logos

Anniversaries

File:5YearsHeWP02.png, Fifth anniversary of

Hebrew Wikipedia Hebrew Wikipedia ( he, ויקיפדיה העברית, ) is the Modern Hebrew, Hebrew language edition of Wikipedia. This edition was started on 8 July 2003 and contains more than encyclopedia article, articles as of . History Timeline *8 Jul ...

(2006) English_Wikipedia_tenth_anniversary_logo.png, Tenth anniversary of Wikipedia (2011) 10piece-zh-hant-M k.svg, Tenth anniversary of Wikipedia celebrated on Chinese edition. Traditional Chinese red variant (2011) 10piece-zh-hant-M k 2.svg, Tenth anniversary of Wikipedia celebrated on Chinese edition. Traditional Chinese black variant (2011) 10piece-chinese-L k.svg, Tenth anniversary of Wikipedia celebrated on Chinese edition. Traditional Chinese black corner variant (2011) 10piece-chinese-L k 2.svg, Tenth anniversary of Wikipedia celebrated on Chinese edition. Traditional Chinese orange variant (2011) 10piece-Chinese-M k.svg, Tenth anniversary of Wikipedia celebrated on Chinese edition. Simplified Chinese red variant (2011) 10piece-Chinese-M k 2.svg, Tenth anniversary of Wikipedia celebrated on Chinese edition. Simplified Chinese black variant (2011) Logo 10 Urodzin.svg, Tenth anniversary of

Polish Wikipedia The Polish Wikipedia ( pl, Polskojęzyczna Wikipedia) is the Polish-language edition of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia. Founded on September 26, 2001, it now has more than articles, making it the -largest Wikipedia edition overall.

(2011) Wikipedia-logo-el 10years.png, Tenth anniversary of

Greek Wikipedia The Greek Wikipedia (also Hellenic Wikipedia, Elliniki Vikipedia, el, Ελληνική Βικιπαίδεια) is the Greek-language edition of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. It was started on December 1, 2002. It surpassed the 10,000 ...

(2012) Wikipedia-logo-als-10years.svg, Tenth anniversary of Alemannic Wikipedia (2013) Wikipedia-logo-10-anyadas-an.svg, Tenth anniversary of the Aragonese Wikipedia (2014) File:Вікіпедія_10_років_в3.png, Tenth anniversary of the

Ukrainian Wikipedia The Ukrainian Wikipedia ( uk, Українська Вікіпедія, ''Ukrainska Vikipediia'') is the Ukrainian language edition of the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. The first article was written on January 30, 2004. the Ukrainian Wiki ...

(2014) Wikipedia-an-logo-10-anyadas-Sant-Chorche-2015.svg, Tenth anniversary of the Aragonese Wikipedia (2015) File:Ukrainian_Wikipedia_15_logo_v01.svg, Fifteenth anniversary of the Ukrainian Wikipedia (2019) File:Uk-wiki-logo-16-2.svg, Sixteenth anniversary of the Ukrainian Wikipedia (2020) WP20_EnWiki20_Logo_BillionEdits.svg, 1st logo for twentieth anniversary of Wikipedia on English edition (2021) WP20_EnWiki20_SimplifiedLogo_BillionEdits.svg, 2nd logo for twentieth anniversary of Wikipedia on English edition (2021) WP20 Logo Zh-hans.svg, Twentieth anniversary of Wikipedia on Chinese edition (2021) Wikipedia svg logo 20 lat-pl.svg, Twentieth anniversary of the Polish Wikipedia (2021) WikiEsp20-final.svg, Twentieth anniversary of the

Spanish Wikipedia The Spanish Wikipedia ( es, Wikipedia en español) is a Spanish-language edition of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia. It has articles. Started in May 2001, it reached 100,000 articles on March 8, 2006 and 1,000,000 articles on May 16, 2013 ...

(2021) Ruwiki20 cake.svg, Twentieth anniversary of the Russian Wikipedia (2021) File:WP20 ViWiki20 Logo.svg, Twentieth anniversary of the

Vietnamese Wikipedia The Vietnamese Wikipedia ( vi, Wikipedia tiếng Việt) is the Vietnamese-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, publicly editable, online encyclopedia supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. As with other language editions of Wikipedia, the p ...

(2021) File:Ukrainian_Wikipedia_17_logo_v01.png, Seventeenth anniversary of the Ukrainian Wikipedia (2021) File:Final_Ukrainian_Wikipedia_18_years_logo_-_Circles.png, Eighteenth anniversary of the Ukrainian Wikipedia (2022) File:Turkce-vikipedi-20-yas.svg, Twentieth anniversary of the Turkish Wikipedia (2022)

Milestone commemorations

File:Wikipedia-1000-an.png, 1 000 articles on the Aragonese Wikipedia (2005) File:Wikipedia-logo-20000-ar.png, 20 000 articles on the

Arabic Wikipedia The Arabic Wikipedia ( ar, ويكيبيديا العربية) is the Modern Standard Arabic version of Wikipedia. It started on 9 July 2003. As of , it has articles, registered users and files and it is the largest edition of Wikipedia b ...

(2006) File:Wikipedia-5000-an.png, 5 000 articles on the Aragonese Wikipedia (2006) File:Wikipedia-logo-vi balloons.png, 10 000 articles on the Vietnamese Wikipedia (2006) File:Wikipedia-logo-ko-30000.jpg, 30 000 articles on the

Korean Wikipedia The Korean Wikipedia () is the Korean language edition of Wikipedia. It was founded on 11 October 2002 and reached ten thousand articles on 4 June 2005. As of , it has articles with active users and is the largest Wikipedia. History The ...

(2006) File:Wikipedia-ar-logo-30000.png, 30 000 articles on the Arabic Wikipedia (2007) File:Wikipedia-logo-ar copy.png, 50 000 articles on the Arabic Wikipedia (2007) File:WP-ZH150000.png, 150 000 articles on the Chinese Wikipedia (2007) File:Wikipedia-logo-ko-40000.png, 40 000 articles on the Korean Wikipedia (2007) File:Greek Wikipedia 20000 articles.png, 20 000 articles on the Greek Wikipedia (2007) File:Greek Wikipedia 30000 articles.png, 30 000 articles on the Greek Wikipedia (2007) File:Ar-Wikipedia-60000.png, 60 000 articles on the Arabic Wikipedia (2008) File:Wikipedia-10000-an.png, 10 000 articles on the Aragonese Wikipedia (2008) File:Wikipedia-logo-vi 30000.png, 30 000 articles on the Vietnamese Wikipedia (2008) File:Wikipedia-logo-vi-50000.png, 50 000 articles on the Vietnamese Wikipedia (2008) File:Wikipedia-logo-vi-75000.PNG, 75 000 articles on the Vietnamese Wikipedia (2008) File:Wikipedia-logo-ko-50000.png, 50 000 articles on the Korean Wikipedia (2008) File:Wikipedia-logo-ko-60000.png, 60 000 articles on the Korean Wikipedia (2008) File:Wikipedia-logo-ko-70000.png, 70 000 articles on the Korean Wikipedia (2008) File:80000wikipedia ko.png, 80 000 articles on the Korean Wikipedia (2008) File:Wikipedia-logo-vi-100000.png, 100 000 articles on the Vietnamese Wikipedia (2009) File:Wikipedia-logo-ko-100000.png, 100 000 articles on the Korean Wikipedia (2009) File:Greek Wikipedia 50000 articles.png, 50 000 articles on the Greek Wikipedia (2009) File:Wikipedia-hy-logo-10000.png, 10 000 articles on the

Armenian Wikipedia The Armenian Wikipedia ( hy, Վիքիպեդիա, translit=Vikipedia Ուիքիփետիա or Վիքիպեդիա Ազատ Հանրագիտարան, ''Vikipedia Azat Hanragitaran'') is the Armenian language version of Wikipedia. It was created in ...

(2010) File:Vikipedi-150000articles-logo.png, 150 000 articles on the Turkish Wikipedia (2010) File:Wikipedia-logo-ko-150000.png, 150 000 articles on the Korean Wikipedia (2010) File:Wikipedia-25000-an.png, 25 000 articles on the Aragonese Wikipedia (2011) File:Wikipedia-logo-vi-200000.png, 200 000 articles on the Vietnamese Wikipedia (2011) File:Wikipedia Arabic Logo 200,000.png, 200 000 articles on the Arabic Wikipedia (2012) File:Wikipedia-vi logo, Tết Nhâm Thìn (5).png, 250 000 articles on Vietnamese Wikipedia (2012) File:Wikipedia-logo-vi-500000.png, 500 000 articles on Vietnamese Wikipedia (2012) File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-sv-500k.svg, 500 000 articles on the Swedish Wikipedia (2012) File:Wikipedia-logo-ko-200000.png, 200 000 articles on the Korean Wikipedia (2012) File:150000HebWiki.png, 150 000 articles on the Hebrew Wikipedia (2013) File:Wikipedia-logo-lv-50K.png, 50 000 articles on the Latvian Wikipedia (2013) File:Ruwklogo1M 3 300p.png, 1 million articles on the Russian Wikipedia (2013) File:Wikipedia-logo-vi-750000.png, 750 000 articles on the Vietnamese Wikipedia (2013) File:Wikipedia-logo-vi-1000000-2.svg, 1 million articles on the Vietnamese Wikipedia (2013) File:Hywiki100000.png, 100 000 articles on the Armenian Wikipedia (2013) File:Wikipedia-logo-vLLen-sv-1M.svg, 1 000 000 articles on the Swedish Wikipedia (2013) File:Wikipedia-logo-ko-250000.png, 250 000 articles on the Korean Wikipedia (2013) File:Vicipaedia logo 2013.png, 100 000 articles on the

Latin Wikipedia The Latin Wikipedia ( la, Vicipaedia Latina) is the Latin language edition of Wikipedia, created in May 2002. As of , it has about articles. While all primary content is in Latin, modern languages such as English, Italian, French, German or S ...

(2013) File:Proposed Greek Wikipedia 100000 articles - proposal G1.png, 100 000 articles on the Greek Wikipedia (2014) File:Wikipedia-logo-be-100000.png, 100 000 articles on the

Belarusian Wikipedia There are two Belarusian Wikipedias ( be, Беларуская Вікіпедыя; Taraškievica: Беларуская Вікіпэдыя): one in the orthography of the Belarusian language which is official in modern Belarus (''Narkamaŭka'', ...

(2015) File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-se-2-million.svg, 2 000 000 articles on the Swedish Wikipedia (2015) File:400000 arwiki.png, 400 000 articles on the Arabic Wikipedia (2015) File:Sk-wikipedia 200000articles Logo v2.png, 200 000 articles on the

Slovak Wikipedia The Slovak Wikipedia ( sk, Slovenská Wikipédia) is the edition of Wikipedia in Slovak. It was started on before 23 September 2003, only becoming active in the summer of 2004. It cleared the 15,000-article mark in September 2005 and the 50,0 ...

(2015) File:Wikipedia-logo-ko-300000.png, 300 000 articles on the Korean Wikipedia (2015) File:Armenian Wikipedia logo 200.png, 200 000 articles on the Armenian Wikipedia (2016) File:Fr-wikipedia 2 millions articles.svg, 2 million articles on the French Wikipedia (2016) File:DE-Wikipedia-2-Millionen-Artikel.svg, 2 million articles on the

German Wikipedia The German Wikipedia (german: Deutschsprachige Wikipedia) is the German-language edition of Wikipedia, a free and publicly editable online encyclopedia. Founded on March 16, 2001, it is the second-oldest Wikipedia (after the English Wikipedi ...

(2016) File:Kashubian Wikipedia anniversary logo.png, 5 000 articles on the Kashubian Wikipedia (2016) File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-se-3-million.svg, 3 000 000 articles on the Swedish Wikipedia (2016) File:Wikipedia-logo-400000-hu-gold.png, 400 000 articles on the

Hungarian Wikipedia The Hungarian Wikipedia ( hu, Magyar Wikipédia) is the Hungarian/Magyar version of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Started on 8 July 2003, this version reached the 300,000-article milestone in May 2015.

(2016) File:Persian Wikipedia's 500,000 article featured logo.svg, 500 000 articles on the Persian Wikipedia (2016) File:Finnish Wikipedia 400 000 logo.png, 400 000 articles on the

Finnish Wikipedia The Finnish Wikipedia ( fi, Suomenkielinen Wikipedia) is the edition of Wikipedia in the Finnish language. By article count, it is the largest Wikipedia with about articles as of . Wikipedia is the only encyclopedia in Finnish which is still up ...

(2016) File:TrWikipedia 300k article logo SunSoldiers.png, 300 000 articles on the Turkish Wikipedia (2017) File:Wikipedia-logo-ko-400000-02.png, 400 000 articles on the Korean Wikipedia (2017) File:Wikipedia-logo-1.5million-v1.1-ru.svg, 1.5 million articles on the Russian Wikipedia (2018) File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-en 6m articles.png, 6 million articles on the

English Wikipedia The English Wikipedia is, along with the Simple English Wikipedia, one of two English-language editions of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. It was founded on January 15, 2001, as Wikipedia's first edition, and, as of , has the most arti ...

(2020) File:Неверагодныя 200 000.svg, 200 000 articles on the Belarusian Wikipedia (2020) File:Wikipedia-logo-lv 100000.png, 100 000 articles on the Latvian Wikipedia (2020) File:Vietnamese Wikipedia's 1,250,000 article.png, 1 250 000 articles on the Vietnamese Wikipedia (2020) File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-uk-mln-v5.svg, 1 000 000 articles on the Ukrainian Wikipedia (2020) File:Wikipedia-logo-ko-500000.png, 500 000 articles on the Korean Wikipedia (2020) File:Wikipedia logo pl 1500000.svg, 1 500 000 articles on the Polish Wikipedia (2021) File:Wikipédia 500.000 Szócikk ünnepi logó.png, 500 000 articles on the Hungarian Wikipedia (2022) File:Wikipedia-logo-ko-600k.svg, 600 000 articles on the Korean Wikipedia (2022) File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-tr-2022 500.svg, 500 000 articles on the Turkish Wikipedia (2022)

Events

File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-lv-131123.png, Latvian Wikipedia logo displayed in memory of the victims of the Zolitūde shopping centre roof collapse (23–26 November 2013) Censored wikipedia logo for trwiki.svg, Turkish Wikipedia logo after being blocked in Turkey (2017) Vikipedi'yiÖzledik.png, Turkish Wikipedia logo used during the #WeMissTurkey campaign to lift block of the website in Turkey (2018) Wikipedia-logo-v2-es-blackout.png, The protest on Spanish Wikipedia against Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (2018) Turkish-language wikipedia logo on white with red bar.png, Turkish Wikipedia logo displayed after the two-year anniversary of the ban, with the message "2 yıldır özlüyoruz" (English: "missing you for two years") (2019) Vikipedi'yeKavustuk.png, Turkish Wikipedia logo following the lifting of the block of the website in Turkey with the message "kavuştuk" (English: "reunited") (2020) File:Armenian Wikipedia logo, Day of Remembrance of the Heroes of Artsakh Liberation War.png, Day of Remembrance of the Heroes of the

2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War was an armed conflict in 2020 that took place in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding territories. It was a major escalation of an unresolved conflict over the region, involving Azerba ...

on the Armenian Wikipedia (2020) Wikipedia-logo-for-Ukraine.png, The logo of the Ukrainian Wikipedia, used since 4 March 2022, in support of Ukraine, and its population, in the

Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An ...

(2022)

Holidays

File:Wiki2007-alpha.png, Christmas and New Year at the Russian Wikipedia (2006–2007, 2007–2008, 2008–2009, 2009–2010, 2011–2012, 2012–2013) File:Wiki-an-San Chorche.png, National Day of Aragon at the Aragonese Wikipedia (2008) File:Wikipedia-logo-vi-tet.png, New Year at the Vietnamese Wikipedia (2008) File:Wiki-an-San Chorche 09.png, National Day of Aragon at the Aragonese Wikipedia (2009) File:Wiki-an-Sant Chorche 2010.png, National Day of Aragon at the Aragonese Wikipedia (2010) File:Wikipedia-logo-vi-tet2010.png, New Year at the Vietnamese Wikipedia (2010) File:Wiki-an-Sant Chorche 2011.png, National Day of Aragon at the Aragonese Wikipedia (2011) File:Logo-vi-wiki-Tet-Tan-Mao.png, New Year at the Vietnamese Wikipedia (2012) File:Wikipedia-vi logo, Tết Nhâm Thìn (5).png, New Year and 250 000 articles at the Vietnamese Wikipedia (2012) File:Wikipedia-logo-vi-tet-QuyTy.png, New Year at the Vietnamese Wikipedia (2013) File:Лого 5 (темно синий вариант) Википедии на Новый Год.png, Christmas and New Year at the Russian Wikipedia (2013–2014) File:Wikipedia-logo-vi-tet-GiapNgo2.png, New Year at the Vietnamese Wikipedia (2015) File:Снеговик в масштабе.png, Christmas and New Year at the Russian Wikipedia (2014–2015, 2015–2016) File:Wikipedia-an-logo-10-anyadas-Sant-Chorche-2015.svg, National Day of Aragon and 10 years anniversary of Aragonese Wikipedia (2015) File:Wikipedia-logo-vi-tet-at-mui.png, New Year at the Vietnamese Wikipedia (2015) File:Logo Wikipedia tiếng Việt tết Bính Thân 2016.png, New Year at the Vietnamese Wikipedia (2016) File:Снеговик с новым взглядом.png, Christmas and New Year at the Russian Wikipedia (2016–2017) File:Wikipedia-logo-vi-tet-dinh-dau-2.svg, New Year at the Vietnamese Wikipedia (2017) File:Wikipedia-logo-v3-ru-xmas.png, Christmas and New Year at the Russian Wikipedia (2017-2018) File:Wikipedia-logo-vi-tet-mau-tuat-3.svg, New Year at the Vietnamese Wikipedia (2018) File:Armenian Wikipedia New year logo 2019.png, Christmas and New Year at the Armenian Wikipedia (2018–2019) File:Wikipedia-logo-v4-ru-xmas.png, Christmas and New Year at the Russian Wikipedia (2018–2019, 2021–2022) File:Tết Wikipedia Logo 2019 (Kỷ Hợi) v1.svg, New Year at the Vietnamese Wikipedia (2019) File:Wikipedia-logo-v4-ru-xmas-silver.png, Christmas and New Year at the Russian Wikipedia (2019–2020) File:Armenian Wikipedia New year logo 2020.png, Christmas and New Year at the Armenian Wikipedia (2019–2020) File:Tết Canh Tý 2020.png, New Year at the Vietnamese Wikipedia (2020) File:Logo blue ball 2021.svg, Christmas and New Year at the Russian Wikipedia (2020–2021) File:2021 Wikipedia Logo Vietnamese New Year (LX).svg, New Year at the Vietnamese Wikipedia (2021)

References

External links

Wikimedia Blog: Wikipedia in 3D
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Wikimedia Blog: A new look for Wikipedia
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