Brion Vibber saith:
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Erik Moeller wrote:
I intend to edit relevant documentation and
webpages to change the name of
the software from "Phase III" to "MediaWiki". This is the name that
Mav
suggested, and it fits nicely together with "Wikimedia". Google shows that
the name is unused. Any objections?
Sounds nice, and less likely to send crowds of confused protesters after
us than "PediaWiki". ;)
What exactly was the history of PediaWiki? I've seen that name occasionally...
mostly in outdated pages. I understand it was the original name of the
software, but...why was it called that?
And MediaWiki intuitively sounds like software for editable multimedia -
something where people can edit sounds and movies online, etc. Wikimedia
sounds like a corporation (which is OK since it's a foundation) but a MediaWiki
is (to me) a Wiki for multimedia. There's no real "editing" of
pictures/sounds -
you can replace old media with new...but that's not really a Wiki: Wikis need
editing abilities, else anonymous FTP to an HTTP-served directory could be
called a Wiki.
Why do we need to _rename_ Phase III? Keep that for the name for Phase IV,
which meta's Main Page used to say was a temporary name (probably still does...)
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-Geoffrey Thomas
geoffreyerffoeg(a)yahoo.com
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