[Foundation-l] When is a Wikipedia not a Wikipedia ?

[Yaroslav M. Blanter]

There was a very good proposal of a Wikicompendium quite a while ago. My
understanding however is that opening of such Wikicompendia need an
explicit Board approval.

Cheers,
Yaroslav
>
> Sounds like a good plan, but (as others have said) it shouldn't be
> called "Wikipedia". It's no more an encyclopaedia than it is a
> dictionary (etc) - they're using "Wikipedia" as the name because it's
> the best known, which doesn't sound like a good reason to me. The name
> should reflect the contents.
>
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