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