2007/5/8, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org:
Currently, many projects are trying (and not rarely succeeding) to get their own identity, with their own plans and functions. By renaming them to "Wikipedia something", we would be telling them that that is not the way we want to go.
I understand the emotional reasons for projects to have their "own identity," rather than being directly associated with Wikipedia through their name. What are the rational ones?
The rational one is that many projects feel that they are an independent project with its own goals and functions, and not an auxiliary project to Wikipedia. Which they would look like under your proposal.