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On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:12 AM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki@gmail.com> wrote:

> Does anyone speak Urdu / know why there's a sun image behind their
> Wikipedia's logo?
>
> http://ur.wikipedia.org/
>
> Doesn't seem to be milestone related.
>
> thanks!
> phoebe
>

http://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wiki.png?uselang=en

Appears to have been introduced on April 1, 2007. The logo before that
celebrated their 5,000th article; I don't know why they decided to add the
sun afterward.

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On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 8:12 AM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki@gmail.com> wrote:

> Does anyone speak Urdu / know why there's a sun image behind their
> Wikipedia's logo?
>
> http://ur.wikipedia.org/
>
> Doesn't seem to be milestone related.


I don't speak it, but the sun symbolizes the (sun)rise or dawn of knowledge.

See http://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_Page_for_Non_Urdu_Speakers

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On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Mohamed Magdy <mohamed.m.k@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 8:12 AM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone speak Urdu / know why there's a sun image behind their
>> Wikipedia's logo?
>>
>> http://ur.wikipedia.org/
>>
>> Doesn't seem to be milestone related.
>
>
> I don't speak it, but the sun symbolizes the (sun)rise or dawn of knowledge.
>
> See http://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_Page_for_Non_Urdu_Speakers
>
> --
> --alnokta

Aha, thanks. Perhaps that is it. I will ask on the talk page as well.
-- phoebe

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