Her most common outfit is a dark blue maid dress, with a collar and a white apron tied at the waist.

Just like in her hair, she wears a puzzle piece on her collar with the symbol "ワィ", which is a misspelling of the katakana "ウィ" that was present in the previous logo from Wikipedia.

[3] Kasuga has stated that when designing Wikipe-tan and, later, her sisters, he kept two things in mind: Fujiko F Fujio's advice that a good character design should have a distinctive silhouette, and an observation by Scott McCloud in his Understanding Comics that golden age comic book artists gave each character symbolic color charts.

On March 29, 2007, Wikipe-tan was joined by the moe anthropomorphisms for Wikipedia's sister projects, Commons-tan and Quote-tan.

Jimbo Wales described Wikipe-tan as a community mascot in 2007,[5] though he has since noted that he personally dislikes the character.