[Wikipedia-l] Our officially anonymous software

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Fri Sep 20 16:28:57 UTC 2002


Toby Bartels wrote:

>Stephen Gilbert wrote:
>
>I don't think that it's reasonable
>to have a name that says "Wiki" but not "Pedia".
>We are not the only Wiki around, nor the original,
>and I don't relish the prospect of one day, when we're famous,
>explaining to people that "Wiki" does not mean just Wikipedia.
>
>My vote is for "PediaWiki".  We now have "PediaWiki version 3".
>("3" as in "3.0", except that we're far beyond just 3.0 by now.)
>
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




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