Mark Gallagher wrote:
G'day Steve,
On 5/11/06, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com wrote:
I see this all the time too, and I can't understand it, people don't say "I looked it up in the Encyclopedia Britannica", they say "I looked it up in Encyclopedia Britannica". It's really quite strange that they wouldn't use the same construct for wikipedia..........
But they would say "I looked it up in the encyclopaedia" - maybe they think "wiki" is just some weird web term, so it would be like saying "I looked it up in the weblopaedia" or something. Rather than realising there is *one* Wikipedia. ?
Imagine, decades from now, the fans of other web encyclopaedias saying things like "those guys are SO arrogant. What gives them the right to say that they are *THE* Wikipedia?"
Because Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation. We should be defending our trademark as vigorously as possible.