On 09/05/07, Aphaia aphaia@gmail.com wrote:
Another concerns, for some people, even Wikipedia is a word too long to recognize. For them It is not only a buzz word, but also nonsense foreign-sound words. I have seen many Japanese people who call wikipedia "wiki" (there as even a campaign "don't call it Wiki"). The brand name is not so globally established as you wishes, specially in non Indo-European language areas. I don't expect much longer Wikipedia blah blah blah is memory-friendly for those people.
People call it "wiki" in English as well. (A conversation yesterday with a TV person who kept talking about "wikis", and it took me a few minutes to realise he was talking about "articles in English Wikipedia". And that's someone in an organisation I *know* has *lots* of internal wikis ...)
- d.