On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 11:49 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2008/9/6 Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.yu:
The problem is, that Wikipedia is by far and wide the most well-known name of all Wikimedia projects. Naming a project "Wikicompendium" would hurt recognition of the project, while naming it "Wikipedia" would help, and shouldn't hurt Wikipedia's recognition, even if technically it's not an encyclopedia.
Depends what you call "encyclopedia." There's broader reasonable definitions of "encyclopedia" than whatever en:wp uses - the quotes database, the source texts, the books, how-tos, these could all reasonably be part of an encyclopedia. Just not most of our large Wikipedias.
I just wanted to say a word about that... We may make "fake Wikipedias" or so. Let's say that http://wikicompendium.org/wiki/encyclopedia:xyz:Main_Page is the main page of Wikipedia in language with the code xyz. Then http://xyz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page should be a virtual redirect to http://wikicompendium.org/wiki/encyclopedia:xyx:Main_Page (I think that I would be able to make a couple of mod_rewrite commands to make that). So, speakers of small languages would have their Wikipedia (Wiktionary, Wikibooks), and we will have one project managed from one place.