[Wikipedia-l] Our officially anonymous software

Sat Sep 21 15:48:06 UTC 2002

--- Toby Bartels <toby+wikipedia at math.ucr.edu> wrote:
> Stephen Gilbert wrote:
> >I like the name "PhaseIII Wiki". It is in keeping
> with
> >Wikipedia history, and people won't have to get
> used
> >to a completely new name.
> 
> 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
> (as I now have to explain that the "Internet" isn't
> just the Web).

I have friends that call Wikipedia "wiki" right now,
despite my protests. :(

The software is not the same as the project, however.
When we're famous, non-technical people will only know
about Wikipedia, not the software that runs it.

Stephen G.

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