2008/9/6 Nikola Smolenski <smolensk(a)eunet.yu>yu>:
The problem is, that Wikipedia is by far and wide the
most well-known name of
all Wikimedia projects. Naming a project "Wikicompendium" would hurt
recognition of the project, while naming it "Wikipedia" would help, and
shouldn't hurt Wikipedia's recognition, even if technically it's not an
encyclopedia.
Depends what you call "encyclopedia." There's broader reasonable
definitions of "encyclopedia" than whatever en:wp uses - the quotes
database, the source texts, the books, how-tos, these could all
reasonably be part of an encyclopedia. Just not most of our large
Wikipedias.
- d.