Wikipedia:Find SVG logos

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
• 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
• 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 is other locations don't have the logo.

• Enter the URL of the company in the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org
• Go to the 'URLs' tab and sarch 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

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!