Wikipedia:Don't call it "Wiki": Difference between revisions

In 1995 two men escaped from a prison in Utah. They apparently weren't the brightest bulbs, in that they were only four months away from being released anyway – and the escape made them eligible for another fifteen years of rest and relaxation. ("Anybody who escapes with that little time left can't be very smart," said a spokesman for the Utah Department of Corrections.) But that's another story.

Anyway, somehow these guys made their way to Berkeley, California (across the San Francisco Bay from, well, San Francisco), specifically to the University of California campus there, where two policemen found them sleeping under a tree. They might have talked their way out of the situation had they not made one very big mistake: telling the officers, when questioned, that they were from "Frisco" – thereby using "the one word sure to identify them as tourists or rubes", as the San Francisco Examiner put it. "It made our officers suspicious," said a police official. "No one from here ever says that."

Somewhere out in the greater world there are people who refer to Wikipedia as "Wiki". I don't know who these people are or where they come from, but I do know this: whenever these people show up and start editing, they never know anything about how the project works. Mark my words: when someone tells you they're "here to improve Wiki", watch out!

Note: the above applies only to the specific form Wiki (with a capital W); terms like enwiki and en-wiki and enwp and so on are apparently unrelated, and are in fact inside-baseball terms used by the most very elite of insiders. The jury's still out on The Wiki.