Anthere wrote:
Chitu Okoli wrote:
By this rule, I would think that "wikipedia" (small letters) should refer to any of various language wikipedias (e.g. de.wikipedia.org and zh.wikipedia.org), whereas "Wikipedia" (capitalized) should refer to the big mama that comprises all the daughter wikipedias (the Wikipedia should be www.wikipedia.org, though that link automatically points to the wikipedia at en.wikipedia.org, I guess because that one was the first, and is the largest and the most visited).
2 years ago, it made sense to talk of the mother (the english) and the daughters (the other ones). But since some of the other ones are quite big now (as a reminder, de is now 100 00 pages) and have their own very well established rules, customs and community, I think that speaking of the big mother with a big W as being the reference of the concept, with the other ones being just sprouts is likely to be increasingly wrongly perceived.
Just a sociological comment :-)
As any parent can tell, having children grow up gives us a strange mixture of relief and regret. :-)
Ec