On 26 July 2012 12:45, Richard Symonds <richard.symonds(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
I love you guys, and I love this list :-)
We love you too.
OK, so: it's Wikipedia with a P, because hardly
anyone donates to anything
except Wikipedia (although Commons gets about 3% of mentions in donors
letters at a guess, and Wikinews/WikiSource maybe 1%), and the address is
designed for non-Wikimedians who either want to learn, or want to donate.
People writing to us will either know the difference between Wikimedia and
Wikipedia (in which case they won't be confused), or they won't know the
difference, in which case we should use the most well-known name.The name
that sticks in their minds most is 'Wikipedia'!
I know the difference, and I still get confused...
Having both is too expensive at the moment. It would
cost an extra £200 +VAT
to have a second one set up, which seems silly when it's only one character
different.
Does anyone know how likely the Royal Mail are to just deliver it
anyway if it has one letter wrong? I know with regular domestic post
they try very hard to deliver badly addressed mail, is the same true
when you have a service like Freepost?