On 19/10/05, Joshua Yeidel yeidel@wsu.edu wrote:
Defending trademarks is tough :-) "Hey, Joe, grab me a kleenex and a coke!"
But important, I think, hence the quick note.
The OP's meaning appears to be "a wiki based on MediaWiki", so perhaps "a mediawiki" would be good. "MediaWiki" is not quite a trademark yet if I understand http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trademark#MediaWiki correctly.
Actually, I read it as "a wiki with encyclopedia-like content", as opposed to the more forum/discussion oriented area of the site - note that he used it to refer to one part of the wiki, not the whole. Wikipedia was, as far as I know, the first to use a wiki to present "polished" content in this way, so with such an easily-understood name it's an obvious temptation to use it like that...
Interestingly, he did also use "a mediawiki", but since it is in fact an instance of MediaWiki that wouldn't be much of a violation even if it *were* considered a trademark ("a MediaWiki wiki" would presumably be preferred, but it's a whole lot better than using "a mediawiki" to mean an install of, say, FlexWiki...)
-- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]