[Wikipedia-l] Re: NuPied ?

Wed Dec 17 19:47:39 UTC 2003

Ray Saintonge a écrit:
> Anthere wrote:
> 
>> Daniel Mayer a rit:
>>
>>> 4) it is easy to pronounce
>>
>>
>> hummm...true 
> 
> 
> Not necessarily.  Is it /noo-/ or /nyoo-/, not to mention /nü-/ which is 
> a problem for English speakers.

Ah, but people will pronounced it differently depending on their 
language. English perhaps noo ou nyoo, french nü.

Btw, I pronounced wikipedia : vikipedia, not ouikipedia.

Do not ask me why :-) It is totally illogical

>>> 5) the 'nu/new' connection relates to the underlying concept (free 
>>> content created by a worldwide community of voluntary authors), not 
>>> its age (thus it will take the 'newness' a few hundred years to wear 
>>> off - assuming that the free content movement really takes hold).
>>
>>
>> hummm....nupedia has nothing to do with "newness" but with "nakedness". 
> 
> 
> In the present age things don't stay new as long as they used to 
> centuries ago.  MS-DOS is for dinosaurs, and it hasn't been around for a 
> few hundred years.  The reference to nakedness is a natural French 
> reaction that won't be obvious to unilingual English speakers -- it's an 
> encyclopedia that brings us the naked truth. :-)
> 
> I believe that its origins have more to do with the animal, the gnu, and 
> free documentation licenses.

Yes, probably.

But, think of the slogan

Nupédia, la vérité nue !

Marchez vers la vérité, avec Nupédia !

Nupédia, les allées de la connaissance

>> Let me think...living nake...is a sort of freedom...the freedom of not 
>> following social norms, of being body free, caressed by soft wind, 
>> perhaps free like a dolphin (or an orca ?) to play in the ocean ?
>>
>> What does that means to me otherwise ?
>>
>> Yes, the freedom of walking barefoot, without the fear of being cut by 
>> a  broken coca cola can.
> 
> 
> It makes me think of the movie "The Gods Must be Crazy". :-)

Don't know that title

Suspicious tone : is it again a Monty Python movie ?

>>> However, what about the other Wikimedia projects? Should we try to 
>>> buy-up other 'nu' domains? At first I thought it would be a great 
>>> idea to have a Wikimedia-owned publishing house called "Numedia"  but 
>>> alas that fine name is taken http://numedia.com/ (the .org is owned 
>>> by somebody else). But 'Nubooks' would work (.org and .com 
>>> available)... NumediaPublishing.org/com is available but that name is 
>>> too long. 
>>
>>
>> Nakesource
>> Nakedquote
>> Naketionary .... hummmm....why not.....
>>
>> NuPied !!!!!  Great name for a new project ?
>>
>> Eclecticology, what do you think ?
> 
> 
> I must say that I don't have strong opinions on the name.  As an 
> inclusionist, I'm more likely to be involved in the old Wikipedia than 
> in the new 1.0 project.  There's always wikinu.org and if we want to 
> look at other top level domains how about wiki.nu if it weren't already 
> taken?
> 
> E
> c

I do not have strong objections about the name either, I just wonder how 
french people "hear" it, and whether they could find it utterly 
ridiculous or not. If that sounds ridiculous, we will not published the 
french version under that name I suppose. Or we will have double work to 
sound serious. Depends...

Either cases, there are so many holes yet to fill in what interest me, 
that I belong to the raw construction more than to the finition team :-)

This said, it is a bit bothering to hear
inclusionist -> wiki work in progress
deletionist -> wiki stable