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wikipedia is the wiki encyclopedia hosted and managed by the wikimedia foundation. this article appears to be about a different and completely distinct wiki pr
by ruined 5y ago
wikipedia is the wiki encyclopedia hosted and managed by the wikimedia foundation.
this article appears to be about a different and completely distinct wiki project.
- ogogmad 5y agoIt's a bit like a Wiki, except with more centralised editorialship. Confusing title indeed.
- drilldrive 5y agoMy professor is an author in it, feels cool.
- gryn 5y agoit's used in the sense of 'a wiki project which tries to act like an encyclopedia' unlike for example the wiki wiki web. a similar kind of wiki is scholarpedia.org. the emphasis is on the encyclopedia part.
- Someone 5y agoI think HN’s ‘smart’ code to remove clickbait fragments from titles didn’t help here. The page’s full title is This Wikipedia of Algebraic Geometry Will Forever Be Incomplete. That’s the Point. That “This”, IMO, makes it clear that they use Wikipedia in a genericized way (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark)