Sitat:
"Wikipedia's first true logo was an image that was originally submitted by Bjørn Smestad as a Nupedia logo.[1] Jimbo thought it would be a much better logo than the flag, and it remained for the next eight months, until the end of 2001. It continued to be used after this time on Special Pages, such as search results."
Jeg husker at jeg laget denne logoen og sendte den inn, men har faktisk aldri fått med meg at den ble brukt til noe. Derfor er det ganske vilt å se at den ble brukt til Wikipedia, og også at man (med litt velvilje) kan se rester av den i dagens logo (når man ser hvordan logoen gradvis har utviklet seg).
Wikipediaartikkelen beskriver logoen slik:
The logo included a quote from Euclid and his Modern Rivals by Lewis Carroll (Preface, page X)
In one respect this book is an experiment, and may chance to prove a failure: I mean that I have not thought it necessary to maintain throughout the gravity of style which scientific writers usually affect, and which has somehow come to be regarded as an ‘inseparable accident’ of scientific teaching. I never could quite see the reasonableness of this immemorial law: subjects there are, no doubt, which are in their essence too serious to admit of any lightness of treatment – but I cannot recognise Geometry as one of them. Nevertheless it will, I trust, be found that I have permitted myself a glimpse of the comic side of things only at fitting seasons, when the tired reader might well crave a moment’s breathing-space, and not on any occasion where it could endanger the continuity of the line of argument.
But due to the fisheye effect, only part of the text can be read.
Jeg synes fortsatt at sitatet er godt...
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