On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Thomas Dalton<thomas.dal...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/6/28 Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com>: >> Wikipedia does not take an article, nor does Wikimedia. > > As far as I'm concerned "Wikimedia" doesn't exist as a proper noun. > It's just an adjective: "the Wikimedia Foundation", "the Wikimedia > movement", "the Wikimedia projects", "the Wikimedia community" etc.
Nonsense -- Wikimedia is a proper (and trademarked) name. There are lots of parts of Wikimedia, and that's generally how it's used -- e.g. "the Wikimedia community" -- but that's no different than saying "the Microsoft developer community." That common usage doesn't mean that Microsoft is not also a proper name! One of the most confusing parts of all of this is the fact that "the Wikipedia" is incorrect, but "the English Wikipedia" is correct. SJ explained why better than I can. -- phoebe _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
