Wikipedia does not take an article, nor does Wikimedia.
When combined with an adjective modifying the project name, or a
common noun modified by the name, the compound noun does take an
article.
"Wikimedia is a non-profit charitable corporation." is correct; so are
"The English Wikipedia", "the Wikipedia cabal", "the print
Wikipedia
'Wikipedia:' namespace pages", and "the Wikimedia Foundation".
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/sj/wikipedia-the-history-of-a-name/
SJ
ps - I am confused by the first sentence on
wikimedia.org [what does
'Wikimedia' mean there?], and the footer of wikimediafoundation says
"About Wikimedia Foundation" -- missing an article.
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Jim Redmond<jim(a)scrubnugget.com> wrote:
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 10:37, Michael Snow
<wikipedia(a)verizon.net> wrote:
There are some situations where you would use the
definite article for
singular proper nouns, such as with some geographical names, or when the
name is actually a combination of common and proper nouns.
I would also use the definite article if I were referring to a specific
language's Wikipedia - "the English Wikipedia", "the Swahili
Wikipedia", et
al. - instead of to the Wikipedia project in general.
As for referring to Wikimedia, in English one would say "the Wikimedia
Foundation" since "Wikimedia" clarifies which foundation we're
talking
about. If the name didn't use the word "foundation" - if it were
"Wikimedia
Earth" or "Wikimedia United" - then the definite article would not be
necessary.
--
Jim Redmond
jim(a)scrubnugget.com
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