[Foundation-l] Re: Personal research grant collaboration request

Sat Jul 31 05:24:35 UTC 2004

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).

Wikipedia is a multilingual project which comprises *all* Wikipedias. If 
you speak of "the" Wikipedia, you are including all language subprojects.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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