one should maybe add, that Steem is, first of all, an opensource communication protocol, enabling a distributed ledger technology. "steem" is only in so far important as it is the protocol-token of Steem and used as a currency-substitude with the Symbol 'STEEM'. ...so basically 3 different animals (Steem, steem and STEEM). This would make the claim of the Wikipedia-User obsolete.

off course in a nicer way

understand his point to many people are chilling their coins