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Originally Posted by fms View Post
True. It is also true that a lot of non-geeks do not know what it means.
True. And equivalent; I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek there, but knowing wrongly is the worst kind of not knowing.

Documentation. Manual. Handbook. Help Guide. I think a few more have been suggested during the IRC meeting.
None of which accurately describe it, though. (Documentation comes closest, IMHO.)

While wiki is an incomplete description, it's certainly at least as accurate as any of those, and to anyone familiar with open-source projects and how they run, it will carry additional, largely correct, implications about the content.

I'm more or less with you on the lean design issues, but I don't see much gain to relabeling any of those, and particularly wiki seems to be a loss by renaming. Maybe I just hate users.