Puzzle-globe design[edit]

A partial globe hangs in the Wikimedia Foundation office.

Each piece bears a glyph (a letter or other character), or glyphs, symbolizing the multilingualism of
Wikipedia. As with the Latin letter “W”, these glyphs are in most cases the first glyph or glyphs of the
name “Wikipedia” rendered in that language. They are as follows:[3]

 At left, from the top down, are Armenian ⟨Վ⟩ v, Cambodian ⟨វ ិ⟩ vĕ (lying on its
side), Bengali ⟨উ⟩ U, Devanagari উউ vi, and Georgian ⟨ვ⟩ v.
 In the middle-left column is Greek ⟨Ω⟩ ō, and below that are Chinese ⟨維⟩ wéi,[4] Kannada ⟨ವಿ⟩ vi,
and (barely visible at the bottom) Tibetan ⟨ཝི⟩ wi.
 In the middle-right column is Latin ⟨W⟩. Above that is Japanese ⟨ウィ⟩ wi; below it
are Cyrillic ⟨И⟩ i, Hebrew ⟨‫ ⟩ו‬v, and (barely visible at the bottom) Tamil ⟨উউ⟩ vi.
 The rightmost column is Ethiopic ⟨উ⟩ wə, Arabic ⟨‫ ⟩و‬w, Korean ⟨위⟩ wi, and Thai ⟨วิ⟩ wi.
The empty space at the top represents the incomplete nature of the project, the articles and
languages yet to be added.[citation needed].