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This is Wikimedia changing to the name that a majority of people know it from, this is not them going from Netflix to Quikster. If I tell my mom to look up som

This is Wikimedia changing to the name that a majority of people know it from, this is not them going from Netflix to Quikster. If I tell my mom to look up something on Wiktionary, I don't tell her it's the same group as Wikimedia, I tell her it's part of Wikipedia, even though the former is correct and the latter is not. In her mind, and in the minds of practically everyone outside of tech, Wikimedia is Wikipedia.

microcolonel 6y ago
> If I tell my mom to look up something on Wiktionary, I don't tell her it's the same group as Wikimedia, I tell her it's part of Wikipedia... Why say either? Not only is it untrue and misleading, but it is entirely pointless, far as I can tell. Does anyone except a certain type of contributor, or staff, care that Wikimedia is an organization? Conversely, is anyone going to pay enough attention to understand the subtleties of "Wikipedia Encyclopedia" where "Wikipedia Dictionary" is somehow not part of an encyclopedia?