Wikipedia Wikipedia logo to enhance the 3D effect of the ball

Wikipedia Wikipedia updated its own logo, the new logo to downplay the imposition of three-dimensional, enhance the 3D effect of the ball. At the same time increase the font size of the word distance, and extend the design of several overall image of the effect.

Last week, Wikipedia Wikipedia updated its logo, the new logo to fade The make-up of the three-dimensional, enhance the 3D effect of the ball. At the same time increase the font size of the word distance, and extend the design of several overall image of the effect. The world's 51 languages are already used on Wikipedia. According to a recent spokesman for the Wikimedia Foundation, Moka Pantages, the main purpose of the redesign and replacement of the logo is to attract more volunteers to participate in the site's editorial work, and to improve the quality of the site's entry.

From the performance, this revision is mainly concentrated in the following areas:

Navigation system:
Revision of the Reading and editing functions have been adjusted. Each time a user opens a Wikipedia page, the page will be alerted to users in a more visible way: The user is currently in the state of reading, discussing, or editing the page.

Edit function:
Compared with the old version, the new Wikipedia content editing page provides a very easy to identify editing toolbar, so it looks more concise and more intuitive. In addition, the Wikimedia Foundation provides a table wizard to facilitate users to create tables and quickly find and replace various types of content.

Add Link:
The new version of Wikipedia also provides a tool to help users add hyperlinks to other pages or external sites on the Wikipedia site.

Search function:
After the revision of the Wikipedia site search box, has been moved from the left side of the old version to the upper right of the page. From the functional point of view, after the revision of the site search to strengthen the function of keyword prompting.

Digital Book Builder:
With the digital book Builder, users can bring together different articles from Wikipedia's Web site and create a digital book. This type of book is used in PDF or OpenDocument file format.



According to Wikimedia Foundation spokeswoman Moka Pantages, "Our goal is to redesign, reduce the threshold of participation in volunteer site construction, make the site easier to use, and hope this change will enhance the diversity of content on the site." ”

According to the Wikimedia Foundation's recent article on the official blog, the new 3D logo prototype in fact as early as in 2003, a design competition was designed, then the site's staff began to test the user's response to the logo made a number of changes. A year ago, the Wikipedia website began to formally revise the new 3D logo, the main changes are "some of the volunteers found that the text of a small error" and will enable high-resolution 3D logo, but also for the logo plus a gradient effect. Now, finally can officially start to the website logo to 3D design.

The new 3D logo will use a number of different languages, but the 3D logo will be used on the font is no longer the past Klingon font, but will use the open source font Linux libertine to enhance the compatibility of logo fonts.




A few different angles of the new logo.



The Wuyi characters represented in the new logo.

If you are are interested in contributing to the building of localized versions of the logo, there are a handy guide that Expla Ins how to put the logo together.