Image:Wikipedia-2nd-logo.png

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wikimedia Commons logo This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. The description on its description page there is shown below.
Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help.
Description

This Wikipedia logo was designed by "The Cunctator" and won the first Wikipedia logo contest, which took place from November to December 2001. This original contest drew 24 entries, the last of which was the winning one.

The quotation in the graphic is:

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 en:Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan, Part I, Chapter VI:

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.


History

previous wikipedia logo, from history of en::image:Wiki.png
Source

Originally from en.wikipedia; description page is/was here.
Date

2004-07-15 (original upload date)
Author

Original uploader was Stw at en.wikipedia
Permission
(Reusing this image)

Released under the GNU Free Documentation License.

[edit] License information

GNU head Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.

Subject to disclaimers.

Asturianu | Български | Català | Deutsch | English | Español | Français | Gaeilge | Italiano | 한국어 | 日本語 | Polski | Português | Română | Türkçe | +/-


[edit] Original upload log

(All user names refer to en.wikipedia)

  • 2004-07-15 22:19 Stw 135×133×8 (9007 bytes) previous wikipedia logo, from history of image:Wiki.png
© © & ™ All rights reserved, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

This image (or parts of it) is copyrighted by the Wikimedia Foundation. It is (or includes) one of the official logos or designs used by the Wikimedia Foundation or by one of its projects. Use of the Wikimedia logo is subject to the Wikimedia visual identity guidelines and requires permission.
The Wikimedia logo

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeDimensionsUserComment
current08:11, 2 August 2007135×133 (9 KB)Katamakura ({{Information |Description=Wikipedia 2nd logo |Source=from English Wikipedia |Date=2007.8.2 |Author=Stw |Permission= |other_versions= }} )

The following file is a duplicate of this file:

The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed):