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What would be a good name for a federated Wikipedia? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by nutomic@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Let's say someone created a Wikipedia clone with Activitypub support, so you can freely read and edit articles on other servers. Basically the same way that Lemmy works. What would be a good name for such a project? Bonus points if the name goes with a cute animal mascot.

Edit: Here you can see the names of existing Fediverse projects.

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[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Encyclopedia is "general education", referring to its broad scope. Wikipedia added wiki as a reference to the source, so the best one would be {source}pedia.

Fedepedia isn't awful but feels... bland, in my opinion.

Something like consolidate is a good synonym for it, but consolipedia also doesn't feel right to me, so if we're not referring to the federated part, we'd have to refer to the decentralized part. Decentropedia is fairly decent, but I'm fond of Micropedia, because the root word is very common, and I feel it's catchier than decentropedia. Either of those are good though.

[–] Tak@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I think decentralization mostly shines in sharing. Comunopedia would obviously do what I'm thinking but I bet there's some who would feel scared of it.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sadly, too many would be afraid to be a good name. Sets itself up as a target.

[–] Tak@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

"word scary" is probably the most annoying crowd.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Naming an ideally unbiased reference source after an economic model that has a storied political past doesn't make sense.

[–] Gabu@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

You do understand that "communism" comes from the root "communal", meaning belonging to a commune, i.e. a group of people sharing a social scope, right?

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Absolutely. It's also a known economic model with a storied history.

Sorry, but it's name clash.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 0 points 6 months ago

Absolutely. It's also a known economic model with a storied history.

Sorry, but it's name clash.