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.
Ibis ? Each article would be a parchment of knowledge. Check the myth and legends section : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_sacred_ibis
I like this, although it feels a bit too short.
I tried combining it with other words but none felt correct. Maybe " Ibis’s library" as a nod to “Anna’s archive”
The more I think about it, the more I like the name. Here is the freshly renamed repo, but its not released yet so 🤫
I thought pigeons were the sky rats but they got nothing on the mighty Ibises. Truly marvelous creatures.
Some ideas: Fediwiki, Wikiverse, PlanetWiki…
But its also a good idea to use codenames and go with an animal mascot like we did with lemmy, because you never know if the scope of your project will change (either limiting it, or expanding it).
Also fediverse.observer has a bigger list of software.
Fedipedia? I guess you want the wiki bit in the name, but Fedipedia really rolls off the tongue.
Here’s some that I thought about:
- Wikipub
- Wikihive (A bee mascot)
- Academoo (A cow mascot)
- LinkLynx (A lynx with a magnifying glass maybe?)
- Encyclonet
Kleiopedia. Named after Kleio the Greek muse of History. Alternate spelling derived from her Latin spelling is Cliopedia but I personally prefer Kleiopedia. She was often depicted with a scroll or a chest full of books.
we need to get the KDE foundation on this! then they’d have two ancient Egyptian names for two different softwares! (the other being Kleopatra, a GPG front-end)
OwlEyrie. It refers to owls as symbols of wisdom and to a group of owls.
Allow me to share, Federated Wiki. I don’t think it uses ActivityPub, but otherwise I think it’s close to what you described. Instead of letting anyone edit articles it uses more of a fork & pull request model.
Yes I saw this before. However the structure is quite confusing and not at all like Wikipedia. From what I can tell it also doesnt federate that well.
A few animal-inspired names that I think have a nice ring to them
- Dodopedia (extinct like Mastadons, similar vowel rhythm to “wiki”)
- Hippopedia
- Komodopedia
Thothpedia, with a little chibi thoth as the mascot. Thoth is the god of writing.
I love the internet
Is good, no? Could also do Ganapedia. Ganapati (Ganesha) is the Hindu divine scribe. But thoth has such a cool history/myth around writing.
I like “Escargot”, because snails are cute and it rhymes with “Margot”.
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I’ve expressed this before, but there needs to be a federated alternative to challenge Fandom, especially after they bought out every single independent wiki like Memory-Alpha and WowWiki, and then filled them with ads.
@nutomic
Ward and co. Are already off to the races with fedwiki
Kiwipedia. With a kiwi as mascot.
That would be cute
right? they are super cute!
Oh yeah theres an open source offline wikipedia app called kiwix so its even more fitting
Cool, I didn’t know.
Have loads of different encyclopedias, each with their own “truth” that differs from everyone else. What could possibly go wrong?
Feddupedia! Cause we’re fed up from centralized… I dunno. Sorry lol
Versipedia.
Wekipedia? Probably too similar, but then maybe that’d be a strength.
If you are a copy, you will always be in the shadow of the original
Oreos?
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They’re a copy that most would agree surpass the original (Hydrox). I’m just being asinine.
Ok, I didn’t know that. I was thinking of copy as in similar name like adidos will never replace adidas and neither will sadidas (even though it’s a palindrome while the original is a close miss). So I expect something wrong with the name but we just misunderstood each other.
