Wikilambda:Wikilambda/Name

This is part of the Wikilambda development plan.

Continues from Wikilambda plan summary.

All names - Abstract Wikipedia and Wikilambda - are preliminary and meant mostly for writing this proposal and discussing it.

The current names are based on the following idea:

• Abstract Wikipedia: the content in Abstract Wikipedia abstracts away from a concrete language
• Wikilambda: this is based on the notion that all functions can be grounded in en:lambda calculus. Also, Wλ looks kinda geeky.

Note that the name "Abstract Wikipedia" will, in fact. not stick around. When the project is done, Abstract Wikipedia will be just a part of Wikidata. This is just a name for the development work, and therefore naming is not that crucial. Wikilambda on the other hand would be a new Wikimedia project, and thus the name will have rather high visibility. It would be good to come up with a good name for that.

There have been three good reasons against the name Wikilambda brought up so far:

• It is really hard to spell for many people (says Effeietsanders)
• Some people keep misreading it as Wikilambada (says Jean-Frédéric)
• It also easily misreads as WikiIambda / Wikiiambda (that's, with yet another i / I instead of the l / L), so it should at least be WikiLambda with a capital L (suggested by Fuzheado)

Alternative names that have been considered or suggested:

• WikiSetta or WikiRosetta (by BugWarp)
• Multilingual Wikipedia
• Translingual Wikipedia (by Deryck Chan)
• Project Eco (to honor Umberto Eco’s work, in particular the book “The search for a perfect language”, which details the history of projects who have failed at the goals of this project)
• Project Aquinas (which is more a play of word on the term "knowledge acquisition" than the philosopher Thomas of Aquinas)
• Wikidata Abstract Content
• Wikifunction for the Function repository
• UniversalPedia (as per ChristianKl)
• Wikiwords (as per Zblace)
• Wikigram or Wikiprogram

Other suggestions are welcome.

In fact, the first task P1.1 for the project will be to decide with the community together on a name and on a logo. This had precedence for previous projects (Logo of Wikidata, Name of Wikivoyage).

Continued in Wikilambda goals.

Finalized at meta:Abstract Wikipedia/Name as Wikifunctions