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by moron4hire 2253 days ago
Aside: "wiki" is a term referring to a general class of software. The name of the crowd-sourced, free encyclopedia is "Wikipedia", as it is built with wiki software.

In other words, Wikipedia is a member of the set of wikis. You wouldn't call "5" just "integer", e.g. it would be confusing to say "there are integer fingers on one hand".

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If someone came up to me and said, "there are integer fingers in one hand" I would be the opposite of confused.
It's the kind of "technically correct" that is literally useless.