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.
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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.
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.
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.
Wikifedia, Fediwiki?
Clusterfuckipedia
Bullshitpedia? Sounds like “You dont believe my facts I defederate”
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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.
Ourpedia
@nutomic Barsa
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.
@nutomic Wikiverse
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.
Capybarawiki, Copybora
Fedipedia? I guess you want the wiki bit in the name, but Fedipedia really rolls off the tongue.
