On 26 July 2012 12:45, Richard Symonds <[email protected]> wrote:
> I love you guys, and I love this list :-)

We love you too.

> OK, so: it's Wikipedia with a P, because hardly anyone donates to anything
> except Wikipedia (although Commons gets about 3% of mentions in donors
> letters at a guess, and Wikinews/WikiSource maybe 1%), and the address is
> designed for non-Wikimedians who either want to learn, or want to donate.
> People writing to us will either know the difference between Wikimedia and
> Wikipedia (in which case they won't be confused), or they won't know the
> difference, in which case we should use the most well-known name.The name
> that sticks in their minds most is 'Wikipedia'!

I know the difference, and I still get confused...

> Having both is too expensive at the moment. It would cost an extra £200 +VAT
> to have a second one set up, which seems silly when it's only one character
> different.

Does anyone know how likely the Royal Mail are to just deliver it
anyway if it has one letter wrong? I know with regular domestic post
they try very hard to deliver badly addressed mail, is the same true
when you have a service like Freepost?

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