Wikipedia:Find SVG logos

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Many Wikipedia articles contain PNG or JPEG logos. These could be vectorized, but it is strongly preferred to extract these from the primary source instead of making them again or downloading them from some third party website like Brands of the World.

Generic guide

• Check the website, use inspect element to see if the logo on the main page is an SVG.
  • If it is, copy the inner HTML to a text file and open it in Inkscape to fix the canvas size or do some crop if needed
• Search site:contoso.com filetype:pdf, "contoso corporation" filetype:pdf or some related query on your favorite search engine
• Zoom in to check if it is a vector. PDF.js will stop rerendering after a certain zoom level, but it will be clear enough to distinguish between a vector and an obvious raster image.
• Open that particular page with Inkscape
• Select that part of the logo, paste it into new file
• Optional: scale the image to a reasonable size
• File -> Document -> Crop to content button (shortcut: ctrl + shift + r)
• Maybe needed to remove <script></script> part with a text editor. The uploader on Wikimeida Commons will block uploading files that contain the script tag for security reasons.
• During uploading on Wikimedia Commons, use {{PD-textlogo}} as the 'license' if the logo is simple enough. Otherwise, upload it to Wikipedia as non-free but fair use material.

From defunct organizations

If the organization went defunct, the Internet Archive can help. You can also try this if other locations don't have the logo.

• Enter the URL of the company in the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org. The Wayback Machine started indexing in 1996, so companies that went defunct before that year likely don't have their website indexed. To find the domain name, searching Google Groups can help.
• Go to the 'URLs' tab and search for pdf, svg or eps. On large sites, loading the page can take a while.
• Depending on the date the organization went defunct, it can be useful to change the sort ordering.
• Some organizations changed their names or merged/split up. It can be worthwhile to explore related domains if you can't find anything on the main domain. Also, try finding sub domains.

Rendering issues

• Sometimes the SVG renderer on Wikipedia, librsvg, can have some issues. It can help to export to SVG to PDF in Inkscape, and then import it again. If you found a true solution for these kind of issues, please note them here!
• Sometimes Inkscape has issues with the font in a logo, it can help trying the 'Poppler/Cairo import' option rather than 'Internal import'

Work around 10k limit in the Wayback Machine

The Wayback Machine URL tabs limits results to 10k URLs. You can bypass this by opening multiple tabs and splitting them up by date. Example: https://web.archive.org/web/2006*/http://example.com/* shows only URLs from 2006

If a single year is still above 10k, you can split it up in smaller chunks until it fits (or you found your desired document).