Japanese error on the Wikipedia logo?

I saw the following post on digg today, which claimed that there was an error in the Japanese puzzle piece of the Wikipedia logo:
Examine the Japanese symbol above the “W” in the logo of Wikipedia. This is not the actual symbol used in Japanese to approximate the “Wi” sound in Wikipedia’s name. While the logo uses use ku, or plausibly wa, followed by the small i symbol, in actuality, the “wi” sound is approximated by putting a u symbol next to a small i symbol.
It does look like a “wa” with a small “i” next to it, which I doubt would be pronounced as a “Wi” in “Wiki”. In fact, the Japanese Wikipedia site uses ウィキペディア as its official spelling, not ワィキペディア. Did wikipedia’s artist screw up on the Japanese portion of the logo?
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You should use “ヰ(wi)” if you spell “Wi” of “Wikipedia” as possible precisely.
ヰ would be more correct than ウィ, but since it is rarely used these days, ウィ is being used instead.
“ヰ”?!
man, you’re just making stuff up now!
j/k. i realize that this particular kana exists, but i’ve never seen it in print.
but, yeah, those fools at wiki did make an error there.
ヰ(wi) is arachaic. No matter what you may wish, katakana is here to stay. Live with it.