What would be theoretically possible as well is if, say, the WMF got renamed to the "Wiki Foundation", leaving the "Wikimedia" name to the Commons.
-ilya
On 7/2/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 7/2/07, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@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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