|Content-Type: text/plain; | charset="iso-8859-1" |From: Daniel Mayer &lt;maveric149(a)yahoo.com&gt; |Sender: wikipedia-l-admin(a)nupedia.com |X-BeenThere: wikipedia-l(a)nupedia.com |X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.4 |Precedence: bulk |Reply-To: wikipedia-l(a)nupedia.com |List-Help: <mailto:wikipedia-l-request@nupedia.com?subject=help> |List-Post: <mailto:wikipedia-l@nupedia.com> |List-Subscribe: <http://www.nupedia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l>, | <mailto:wikipedia-l-request@nupedia.com?subject=subscribe> |List-Id: An unmoderated discussion of all things Wikipedia <wikipedia-l.nupedia.com> |List-Unsubscribe: <http://www.nupedia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l>, | <mailto:wikipedia-l-request@nupedia.com?subject=unsubscribe> |List-Archive: <http://www.nupedia.com/pipermail/wikipedia-l/> |Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 18:09:15 -0700 | |On Friday 20 September 2002 12:01 pm, you wrote: |> I would be very careful about using any words beginning with "pedia-" or |> anything similar. �The Greek root for this relates to children, and even |> the slightest inadvertant suggestion that the name could have anything |> at all to do with kiddy-porn may bring a whole lot of unwanted traffic. |> |> Ec | |I thought the root was ped from the Latin pedis which means foot. I'm not |sure where "pedophila" came from. "Ped" is the root of many other words. |Shall we not use those either? Boy I thought I was paranoid about ultra minor |things. I vote for PediaWiki because it has a certain ring to it -- this |would just be the name of the software and any ref to it will be a couple |levels in from the main page. | |-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav) |[Wikipedia-l] |To manage your subscription to this list, please go here: |http://www.nupedia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l | Both pediatrician and pedophile come from the Greek prefix paedo- meaning "child".