[Foundation-l] Klassical Chinese
David Gerard
dgerard at gmail.com
Sat Sep 6 21:49:32 UTC 2008
2008/9/6 Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.yu>:
> The problem is, that Wikipedia is by far and wide the most well-known name of
> all Wikimedia projects. Naming a project "Wikicompendium" would hurt
> recognition of the project, while naming it "Wikipedia" would help, and
> shouldn't hurt Wikipedia's recognition, even if technically it's not an
> encyclopedia.
Depends what you call "encyclopedia." There's broader reasonable
definitions of "encyclopedia" than whatever en:wp uses - the quotes
database, the source texts, the books, how-tos, these could all
reasonably be part of an encyclopedia. Just not most of our large
Wikipedias.
- d.
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