2009/7/7 Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>om>:
Once a name or monument transcends what it originally
named and is
used by reference to describe similar things elsewhere, there is a
tendency to add the definite article -- the Earth, the Sun, the
Sphinx, the Oracle, the Colosseum. I do see people running wikis of
any sort on their own or their company site, with a comment that they
have 'set up their own wikipedia'. This would be consistent with
calling the original Project 'the' Wikipedia.
That's common usage, which we're trying to drive back out by pointing
out that's a trademark and "wiki" is the generic term ;-)
Of course, then you have people using "wiki" to mean "Wkipedia" ...
- d.