Wikipedia:Don't call it "Wiki"

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), where two policemen found them sleeping under a tree. They might have talked their way out of the situation had they not made one critical 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, because no one who actually edits calls it that, but I do know this: whenever they show up and start editing, they never know anything about how the project works, and rarely seem able to scale the learning curve. When someone tells you they're "here to improve Wiki", watch out!

Note: the above applies only to the specific form wiki (that word alone, capitalized or not, as a noun – so note that phrases such as the wiki software don't qualify); perhaps paradoxically, terms like enwiki and en-wiki and enwp and so on are apparently unrelated, and are in fact inside-baseball terms used by elite editors. The jury's still out on The Wiki.

For example

• The purpose of Wiki is to portray an accurate story of prominent people or a version of events. My two records are official records- one is a census return and the other is a U.S. Army record. Surely, they are legit.
• ==Sally C Morton Wiki== Hi, I work for Sally C Morton of ASU Knowledge Enterprise. We are editing her page and have not completed it. I received a message that you removed the content due to citations. We are not done editing the page and several hours of content where removed by you. How can we have that info placed back into Sally's Wiki?