What would be a good name for a federated Wikipedia?

Williamfonseca , 4 months ago

@nutomic Barsa

Williamfonseca , 4 months ago

@nutomic Wikiverse

ademir , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Kiwipedia. With a kiwi as mascot.

nix , 4 months ago

That would be cute

ademir , 4 months ago

right? they are super cute!

nix , 4 months ago

Oh yeah theres an open source offline wikipedia app called kiwix so its even more fitting

ademir , 4 months ago

Cool, I didn’t know.

Leatherface , 4 months ago

Fedipedia?

MargotRobbie , 4 months ago

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.

phoenixz , 4 months ago

Have loads of different encyclopedias, each with their own “truth” that differs from everyone else. What could possibly go wrong?

Landmammals , 4 months ago

Clusterfuckipedia

pewgar_seemsimandroid , 4 months ago

fedipedia or neutron-tree

troed , 5 months ago

Minerva - Roman god of wisdom

DirigibleProtein , 5 months ago

Dave

dgkf , 5 months ago

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

comrade_pibb , 4 months ago

hehe doodoopedia

Mishmash2000 , 5 months ago

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.

Khanzarate , 5 months ago

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 , 5 months ago

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.

GBU_28 , 5 months ago

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

Gabu , 5 months ago

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?

dessalines , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

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.

detectivemittens , 5 months ago

Fedipedia? I guess you want the wiki bit in the name, but Fedipedia really rolls off the tongue.

lil , 5 months ago

Capybarawiki, Copybora

averyminya , 5 months ago

Feddupedia! Cause we’re fed up from centralized… I dunno. Sorry lol