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

Sat Jul 31 17:32:06 UTC 2004

Anthere wrote:

> 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).
>
> 2 years ago, it made sense to talk of the mother (the english) and the 
> daughters (the other ones). But since some of the other ones are quite 
> big now (as a reminder, de is now 100 00 pages) and have their own 
> very well established rules, customs and community, I think that 
> speaking of the big mother with a big W as being the reference of the 
> concept, with the other ones being just sprouts is likely to be 
> increasingly wrongly perceived.
>
> Just a sociological comment :-)

As any parent can tell, having children grow up gives us a strange 
mixture of relief and regret. :-)

Ec