[Commons-l] Should Commons be renamed?

[Bryan Tong Minh]

I've personally never liked the name "Wikicommons". It just doesn't
sound well to me, compared to "Wikimedia Commons" or "(The) Commons."

Bryan

On 7/2/07, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On 7/2/07, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote:
> > IMO Commons had rather no choice but to choose a confusing name,
> > because the obvious name - Wikimedia! - already stands for some other
> > idea that doesn't actually have a lot to do with media but only wikis.
> > Perhaps Wikimedia (& Wikimedia Foundation) should become Wikimmunity
> > (wiki-community - but it kind of sounds like wiki-immunity :)) and
> > then Commons can take over the Wikimedia label. Otherwise we're
> > looking at "Wikimedia Media"... er... then should MediaWiki be
> > "Wikimedia Wiki"? :)
>
> How about just "wikicommons.org"? We do own the domain name. This
> would reflect the idea that we, at some point, may want to also serve
> other wiki communities through tools like InstantCommons. It would be
> much less of a hassle to perform this rename since many people have
> called it that from the start, and most references to the project
> would still be accurate.
>
> --
> Toward Peace, Love & Progress:
> Erik
>
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