There was a discussion among the Malayalam Wikipedians about the new logo appeared in the Sankrit Wikipedia. The new logo shows the name merely as विकिपीडिय. I agreed that it reads as Wikipedia itself (not like in Hindi. In Hindi विकिपीडिय reads as Wikipediy). But for it to be in the nature of Sanskrit Language, it should be in nominative case i.e in प्रथमा विभक्ती - एकवचनरूपम् . That means the name of Wikipedia should appear as विकिपीडियः in masculine gender, or as विकिपीडिया in feminine gender, or as विकिपीडियम् in neuter gender. But the wikipedian Thachan Makan (
thachan.makan@gmail.com) disagreed and said that the name as विकिपीडिय itself is sufficient. Thachan Makan also pointed out that the person Hari Prasad Nadig (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HPN ), who designed the new logo, may have sufficient knowledge in Sanskrit. Then the wikipedian Shiju Akex (
shijualexonline@gmail.com) asked that if we consider विकिपीडिय as a foreign word, whether it would be acceptable. Then also I disagreed. Considering विकिपीडिय as a foreign word also do not solve the problem. I still do believe that,
as a name,
it should appear as विकिपीडियः or as विकिपीडिया or as विकिपीडियम्. By this time, Hrishikesh (
hrishi.kb@gmail.com) supported the second name विकिपीडिया. I further tried to make the things more clear to Shiju Alex by citing some examples from dictionaries and explaining sandhi rules, adjective rules and samasa rules of Sanskrit. At this point, by citing the contributions of Hari Prasad Nadig in Sanskrit Wikipedia, Shiju said that Nadig may not have enough expertice in Sanskrit. But Shiju accepted Nadig's contribution in the Sanskrit Wikipedia logo as such by assuming that Nadig would have consulted experts from organisations like Sanskrit Bharati. Shiju also suggested to discuss this subject either in Sanskrit Wikipedia or its Mailing List so as to make both active. Now the subject is in Sanskrit Wikipedia's mailing list.