On 1/4/06, Florence Devouard anthere@wikimedia.org wrote:
Just a suggestion before our mailboxes explodes... why not discussing this on WIKI ? You list names, and add comments under names.
Because that'd be a good idea.... In all seriousness, I think that's what should be done next, probably on Meta, with posts to different language wiki's Village Pumps. [Kereluk, Darren L.] Works for me! I would like to thank the community for this very interesting exchange of ideas, regardless where the discussion is moved next.
And yes, I think World Wide Wiki might be a kinda cool name, but we'll keep searching. [Kereluk, Darren L.] It might be yet possible to use a compound name using the wiki prefix and a root that is already used elsewhere. While the "world" one is certainly catchy, it's already in use for two other events; thus if somebody came up with something like Chris Pirillo did when he named his Gnomedex event based on the Comdex event, it might be possible to do the same here at no cost for "borrowing" the root word, especially since the Foundation is a non profit organisation.
I've tried to come up with some more suggestions for names, but to be brutally honest, they are quite craptacular, even if they are "available". (wikifete, wikissembly, wikimirers) The only one that is slightly less craptacular than the others is WikiAgerie--a play on the word menagerie.
Darren.