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Old 27th Jun 07, 06:19 AM
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Typo in Wikipedia logo fractures the Sanskrit
*Source: News.com (http://news.com.com/Typo+in+Wikipedi...tag=nefd.top)*
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The symbolism is not exactly ideal. Those on the lookout for errors on Wikipedia have flagged a few more--this time, however, they are not examples of vandalism at the user-created site but typographical errors in Wikipedia's own logo.

In postings on internal mailing groups, users of Wikipedia have described obvious mistakes in the design, a globelike jigsaw puzzle with characters from various languages on the pieces. Two of the characters--one in Japanese and one in Devanagari, the script used in Sanskrit and several modern Indian languages--are meaningless because of minor slips.

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