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The logo of Wikipedia, an Internet-based free multilingual encyclopedia, 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. ==Design== Each piece bears a glyph (a letter or other character), 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: *Near the center is Latin . Above that is Japanese ''wi''; below it are Cyrillic ''i'', Hebrew ''w'', and (barely visible at the bottom) Tamil ''vi''. *To the left of the is Greek ''ō'', and below that are Chinese ''wéi'',〔see 維基大典〕 Kannada ''vi'', and (barely visible at the bottom) Tibetan ''wi''. *At left, from the top down, are Armenian ''v'', Cambodian ''vĕ'' (lying on its side), Bengali ''u'', Devanagari (unicode:वि) ''vi'', and Georgian ''v''. *The right-most column is Ethiopic ''wə'', Arabic ''w'', Korean ''wi'', and Thai ''wi''. The empty space at the top represents the incomplete nature of the project, the articles and languages yet to be added. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wikipedia logo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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