[Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 55, Issue 62

Wed Oct 29 14:12:11 UTC 2008

a non.profit project?

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Jon Harald Søby <jhsoby at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wikipedia is not an organization, and thus cannot be *a* non-profit.
>
> 2008/10/29 Rich Holton <richholton at gmail.com>
>
>> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:45 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > 2008/10/22 Mike.lifeguard <mikelifeguard at fastmail.fm>:
>> > > Delphine wrote:
>> >
>> > >>1) The slogan "Wikipedia is a non-profit" sounds weird to me...
>> >
>> > > Well, Wikipedia itself isn't a nonprofit, the Foundation is. But "is
>> > > nonprofit" and "is a nonprofit" are both acceptable in English (1st is
>> > > an adjective, 2nd is a noun) so I don't see an issue with those words.
>> >
>> >
>> > "is nonprofit" would be more strictly accurate.
>> >
>> >
>> > - d.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> It's not conclusive of anything, but interesting:
>>
>> Google.com search for
>> "is non-profit": about 90,000
>> "is nonprofit":  about 41.200
>> "is a nonprofit": about 1,930,000
>> "is a non-profit": about  1,660,000
>>
>> Of course, this doesn't take into account the context.
>>
>> Perhaps "Wikipedia is a nonprofit organization" (or "non-profit
>> organization") if you prefer. Of course, that exposes the
>> "organisation/organization" difference.
>>
>> -Rich
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