Abstract Wikipedia/Name

This is part of the development plan for Abstract Wikipedia.

Continues from the summary plan for Abstract Wikipedia.

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 abstracted away from a concrete language.
• Wikilambda: this is based on the notion that all functions can be grounded in lambda calculus. Also, Wλ looks kinda technophile (“geeky”), with the risk of being perceived as not meeting its intended public and being managed with a bias only by specialists, already advantaged by an access to the largest knowledge available in their own culture.

Note that the name "Abstract Wikipedia" will not, in fact, 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.

Objections

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).

Alternatives suggested

Alternative names that have been considered or suggested:

This is an archive. New names should be proposed in Wiki of functions naming contest.
WiKi-K'e (Navajo for friendship. Suggested by Koridas) 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 which have failed at the goals of this project) Project Aquinas (which is more a play on words on the term "knowledge acquisition" than the philosopher Thomas of Aquinas) Wikidata Abstract Content Wikifunction for the Function repository UniversalPedia (as per ChristianKl) WikiWords and WW (as per Zblace) Wikigram or Wikiprogram WikipediaOne User:devayon Wikifranca (as per Seemplez) Hohonupedia (hohonu being the Hawaiian word for 'deep' as opposed to wiki (quick)). Or simply Deep Wikipedia. MultiWiki gkellogg. Wikipedia LF AIMO or Aimopedia (Abstract Input, Multilingual Output) Wikicode (Amir E. Aharoni, also Ryan524~metawiki in 2006) Wikiglobal (Amir E. Aharoni) Wikiglobe (Amir E. Aharoni) Wikitemplates (Amir E. Aharoni, also Zaenon in 2017) Wikirepo (Amir E. Aharoni) Wikiuniverse (Amir E. Aharoni) Wikishare (Amir E. Aharoni) Wikisum (Hay) Wikibabel (Hay) Wikiversal (Hay) Wikitolk (Hay) Wikiglot (Hay) WikiPreTranslate (user:Victorgrigas) Wikifacts (Moedn) WikiCortex (PaulAsimov) WikiChunks (PaulAsimov) General Wikipedia (by Niklitov) Wikigeneral (by Niklitov) Hyperpedia (by Niklitov) HyperWiki (by Niklitov) Datapedia (by Niklitov) Big Wikipedia (by Niklitov) BigDaPedia (by Niklitov) NewWiki (by Niklitov) Newpedia (by Niklitov) New Wikipedia (by Niklitov) Wikipedia Beta (by Niklitov) Up Wikipedia (by Niklitov) Alphapedia (by Niklitov) Next Wikipedia (by Niklitov) Х-pedia (by Niklitov) WikiLink (by DeepWiki) Honupedia (by Eltomas2003) Holopedia (by FocalPoint) WikiZinfo (by GrounderUK) Wikistream (by Path slopu) Wikicodex or Wikimedia-Codex (by Path slopu) Codex-Wiki (by Path slopu) Wikimorph (by Path slopu) TransWiki or Transmutewiki (by Path slopu) NeoWiki (by Path slopu) Wikilibs or Wikimedia Library (by Path slopu) UniWiki (by Path slopu) Wiki-optimum (by Path slopu) Wikiverse (by Path slopu) Wikimedia Ultimate (by Path slopu) Wikimedia compendium (by Path slopu) Compile-Wiki (by Path slopu) Wikimedia TITAN (by Path slopu) PrimeWiki (by Path slopu) Zen-Wiki or Wikizen or ZenithWiki (by Path slopu) Quintessential Wikipedia (by Path slopu) Layman's Wiki (by Path slopu) Wiki of Everything (by Path slopu) Tempo Wiki (by Path slopu) Wikiabs (by tbiw) Wikifunctions (by marcmiquel) Tractwiki (by tbiw) Wikitedia (by tbiw) Wikimuldia (by tbiw) Wikioperator (by Data Gamer) (from Operator) Wikend (by Data Gamer) (from Wiki and end, meaning fulfillment) Wikifun (by Data Gamer) (from Wiki and function) Universal Wikipedia (by 읏) Lingista (by Killarnee) 'Pedia McPediaface[1] (by Guy Macon) Wikidatopedia 217.117.125.72 10:38, 8 August 2020 (UTC) Wikiglobia or Globipedia (by User: ExpertEnterpriseProgrammer) Wikipedia Zero (reuse the name; by Brainulator9) Nupedia (reuse the name) Wikifedia (the f stands for Future; by WikiBayer) WikiΖeta (by ArthurPSmith) Module Wiki (by Path slopu) Mod-wiki (by Path slopu) Axial wiki (by Path slopu) Pref wiki (by Path slopu) Algo-wiki (by Path slopu) Wikimedia Algorithm (by Path slopu) Para-wiki (combination of parameter and wiki) (by Path slopu) Wikivars (by Path slopu) Wikirithm (combination of Wiki and algorithm) (by Path slopu) Structwiki (by Path slopu) Wiki++ (incrementing Wikipedia) (by Path slopu) Wikipedia++ (incrementing Wikipedia) (by Path slopu) Bashwiki (by Path slopu) Wiki-sharp (by Path slopu) Build wiki (by Path slopu) Wikimedia sharp (by Path slopu) Wiki scripts (by Path slopu) Wiki logics (by Path slopu) Wikiport (by Path slopu) Wikimedia Polymorph (by Path slopu) Wiki gate (by Path slopu) Wiki-progs (by Path slopu) Curry (by ABaso (WMF)) Wikicurry (by ABaso (WMF)) Eval (by ABaso (WMF)) WikiREPL (by ABaso (WMF)) Functionwiki (by ABaso (WMF)) (as mentioned elsewhere) 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 goals of Abstract Wikipedia.