On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Ravishankar <ravidre...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> This makes it clear that this is an independent encyclopaedia initiative.
> Wikipedia, Wiki have long become common names to indicate anything like
> encyclopaedia.
>


Point of order:

Wiki is a generic name.  Wikipedia is not.  It is a registered trademark.
 Using it as a common/genericized term would be incorrect,and is something
that we fight regularly, legally.  :)

pb
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