Samuel Klein wrote: > Wikipedia does not take an article, nor does Wikimedia. > > When combined with an adjective modifying the project name, or a > common noun modified by the name, the compound noun does take an > article. > > "Wikimedia is a non-profit charitable corporation." is correct; so are > "The English Wikipedia", "the Wikipedia cabal", "the print Wikipedia > 'Wikipedia:' namespace pages", and "the Wikimedia Foundation". > A bit late on this, but I notice that [[en:Encyclopædia Britannica]] consistently refers to that encyclopedia as "the Britannica". Given that, I can hardly fault the average non-Wikipedian for being confused as to why it's not, in a parallel way, "the Wikipedia"; I imagine Britannica's dominance has conditioned a good many people to think that "the _Encyclopedianame_" is the proper way to refer to encyclopedias.
I suspect this is some sort of archaic grammar being held over in Britannica's case? -Mark _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
