Okay, I have to say that this whole thread makes us all look a little silly.
Let it be known everlastingly that
*this*<http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/google_launches_the_google>is
why we don't say "the Wikipedia."'
Sheesh.
Steven
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:11 AM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Thomas
Dalton<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
2009/6/28 Samuel Klein
<meta.sj(a)gmail.com>om>:
Wikipedia does not take an article, nor does
Wikimedia.
As far as I'm concerned "Wikimedia" doesn't exist as a proper noun.
It's just an adjective: "the Wikimedia Foundation", "the Wikimedia
movement", "the Wikimedia projects", "the Wikimedia community"
etc.
Nonsense -- Wikimedia is a proper (and trademarked) name. There are
lots of parts of Wikimedia, and that's generally how it's used --
e.g. "the Wikimedia community" -- but that's no different than saying
"the Microsoft developer community." That common usage doesn't mean
that Microsoft is not also a proper name!
One of the most confusing parts of all of this is the fact that "the
Wikipedia" is incorrect, but "the English Wikipedia" is correct. SJ
explained why better than I can.
-- phoebe
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