2008/9/6 Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.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.