[Foundation-l] Wikiversity=>Wikisophia

Tue May 10 02:05:31 UTC 2005

On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 23:10 +0200, Erik Moeller wrote:

> Angela suggested the name Wikisophia.org/.com, which is currently owned 
> by Peter Danenberg (WikiTeX). I loved the idea immediately: the Greek 
> sophia means "wisdom", but also has many other meanings in the area of
> learning. It is specific enough to be useful and vague enough to not
> limit the project very early in its nature or scope.
> 
> Peter is willing to give us the name if we push WikiTeX a little to get
> it security-reviewed and installed on our servers, which seems like a
> fair deal to us.

I don't see how it's acceptable for us to agree to any conditions that
affect our prerogatives for software use.  We need to use whatever
software best suits our purposes.  WikiTeX is nice work, and we may
very well end up using it or something similar.  But that has to be our
choice, and ours alone, based on our needs.  We can certainly agree to
give him money and/or some official imprimatur, but not our freedom.

Secondly, what's wrong with good old fashioned plain-English multiple
word names for things like "Wikimedia Schools Project" or "Wikimedia
Offline" or something?  The trend of squeezing things into obscure
neologisms strikes me as too cute for a serious project.

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Lee Daniel Crocker <lee at piclab.com>  <http://www.piclab.com/lee/>
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