On 09/05/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 5/8/07, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
would not necessarily make the Wikipedia branding approach problematic any more so than GMail's popularity makes it a bad idea to call it "Google Mail"). But so far, the differences are orders of magnitude large.
You mean, the way GMail operates as Google Mail in the UK?
Speaking for my involvement with Commons, I want success for Commons on its own terms. Not just as a service project to Wikipedia.
The naming does not at all imply that it would be a service project.
*cough* It is a service project. If it tried to break away from that, we'd need another service project.
- d.