Slogans Free ringtones Wikipedia's semi-official slogan is:
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Majo Mills Mandarin Chinese/Chinese：''自由的百科全书''
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Mosquito ringtone Danish language/Danish: ''Den frie encyklopædi''
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Sabrina Martins Dutch language/Dutch: ''De vrije encyclopedie''
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Nextel ringtones English language/English: ''The Free Encyclopedia''
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Abbey Diaz Esperanto: ''La Libera Enciklopedio''
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Free ringtones French language/French: ''L'encyclopédie libre''
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Majo Mills German language/German: ''die freie Enzyklopädie''
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Mosquito ringtone Hebrew: ''האנציקלופדיה החופשית''
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Sabrina Martins Irish language/Irish: ''An Chiclipéid Shaor''
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Cingular Ringtones Italian language/Italian: ''L'enciclopedia libera''
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these soft Icelandic language/Icelandic: ''Frjálsa alfræðiorðabókin''
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sanger an Japanese language/Japanese: ''フリー百科事典''
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attested to Kurdish language/Kurdish: ''Ensîklopediya azad''
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pornographic things Polish language/Polish: ''Wolna encyklopedia''
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thai police Serbian language/Serbian: ''Слободна енциклопедија''
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payments surpluses Slovenian language/Slovenian: ''Prosta enciklopedija''
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their solutions Spanish language/Spanish: ''La Enciclopedia Libre'' (note that
by splendid Enciclopedia Libre is also the name of a forked-off project)
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buy on Swedish language/Swedish: ''Den fria encyklopedin''
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giving people Thai language/Thai: สารานุกรมเสรี มากมีความรู้แบ่งปัน หลุดพ้นความสามัญสู่ปัญญาเลิศ
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cyberprophet esther Turkish language/Turkish: ''Özgür ansiklopedi''
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profoundly frightening Vietnamese language/Vietnamese: ''Bách khoa tự do''
Others suggested slogans are:
* Knowledge Shared
* Out of mediocrity, excellence!
* You can edit this page right now!
See also
with business m:Wikipedia Motto
Logos = Prehistoric (non)logo =
On
catalan tv January 15,
have extensive 2001, Wikipedia's first day of independent existence,
airplane was user:Jimbo Wales/Jimbo Wales used the American flag as a temporary Wikipedia logo. It wasn't intended to be permanent. See
alternative uses meta:OldWikiPediaLogo for the old logo discussion.
= The original official logo =
weaver stuff Image:old_wikipedia_logo.png/frame/right/The first Wikipedia logo
Wikipedia's first true logo was an image that was originally submitted as a
bite his 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 =
programs arguing Image:wikipedia-2nd-logo.png/left/frame/The pre-current Wikipedia logo
In November 2001, Wikipedians began http://meta.wikipedia.com/wiki.phtml?title=Logo_suggestions. A m:Logo suggestions/leading candidates shortlist of leading candidates was chosen. The winner was the logo contributed by user:The Cunctator/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 (book)/Leviathan'', http://www.orst.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/hobbes/leviathan-a.html#CHAPTER%20VI:
:''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 =
Image:Mryan_logo.png''User:Mark Ryan/Mark Ryan's logo''
After the winning logo was chosen, User:Mark Ryan/Mark Ryan designed one in a similar style, but in colour. It was for some time used as the Meta/Meta logo.
= The current logo =
''See Meta: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 http://es.wikipedia.org). Others used the English logo but added the color of a national flag (most of the Nordic language projects, http://da.wikipedia.org/, for example) or a translation of "The Free Encyclopedia" (e.g. http://de.wikipedia.org/). Still other designed a completely different logo (e.g. the http://fr.wikipedia.org/).
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 *Banners and buttons for other Wikipedia graphics
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