Alright, here is the story. Some four years back New York Times wrote about Wikipedia logo, reporting two symbols rendered were not correct. One of them was Japanese and the other was our own Devanagari used by many Indian languages including Sanskrit and Hindi. That was the first time probably someone had a good look at the logo, including me. 🙂
It was right there! The Kannada text “wi” in logo jigsaw was wrong too. Its wasn’t exactly typo error, the vowel addition to consonant base had been slipped in all these three cases to make it meaningless. Right, after blogging this I went for a long hibernation, from internet world, that’s what polar bears do.
Meanwhile, Team Wikipedia took NY Times article very seriously. Of course they did, the question raised was “if Wikipedia cannot get their logo straight, how accurate rest of the information are?”. Team Wikipedia left a comment on my blog asking for more information, which I couldn’t provide on time.
These guys say it is Kannada, and what’s more they say “it does not make [sense] at all”. They gave two suggested replacements; I can’t find the first one (might be U+0C8F, ಏ), the second seems to be U+0CB5 with combining U+0CD6 (I think? The combining character looks more like a U+0CEE in their image, but that doesn’t combine; may be a font thing), which is ವೖ. I have left a note on their page asking for help identifying the character. – the discussion
Finally it was all resolved (I don’t know when) and here you go, the Wikipedia logo with all errors fixed.
