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The first Wikipedia logo. In January 2001, Jimmy Wales used the flag of the United States as a placeholder logo for Wikipedia's UseModWiki instance. [4] Wikipedia's first true logo was an image originally submitted by Bjørn Smestad – under the username Bjornsm – for a Nupedia logo competition which took place in 2000. [5]
Others used the English logo but added the color of a national flag (most of the Nordic language projects, Danish, for example) or simply a translation of "The Free Encyclopedia" (e.g. German). Still others designed a completely different logo (e.g. the French Wikipedia).
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The colorless Google logo used prior to September 2015, when a background image/doodle is set on the home page The colorless Google logo used for the funeral of George H. W. Bush on December 8, 2018, the death of Queen Elizabeth II on September 8, 2022, and the funeral of Jimmy Carter on January 9, 2025, as well as for Memorial Day starting in ...