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Newbie and first post.
J I have been feeling rather uncomfortable with the name
of our project. 1.
If it is a fork of Wikipedia,
as it is, it should not give up its parental association by abandoning
the root term wiki in the new name but *must* retain it in a suitable
form. 2.
The name *Citizendium* does
not appear appropriate (with apologies to whosoever invented it). We are here
not as *Citizens* but as *Experts* (whatever be our field of specialization and
level of expertise). The name Citizendium appears to connote a *compendium* by
citizens (who no doubt have at times questionable knowledge- hence the origin of
this fork) 3. Also, and very importantly, the word Citizen invariably brings into question its relationship with State (for example, a petition to the State for redressing citizens grievances, and citizens rights and duties, which are irrelevant to our project). Moreover, *citizen* is specific to a country while our project is, hopefully, global and all-embracing, as an encyclopedia should be. 4.
As such a new name for our
project is required which appropriately reflects our efforts and retains the
root term *wiki.* This is very
important. 5.
*Wikipendium* appears to be a
better term. (However, *compendium,* says, COD, is *a collection of concise but
detailed information about a particular subject.* (emphasis supplied).
Thus the limitation of this new name, though better than *Citizendium,* is that
it is concerned with a *particular subject* and not with *all the subjects,* as
is the case with our project and for that matter with any
encyclopedia. 6. Any other suggestion? Perhaps a day or two on the issue is worth our time as we are still in *pilot* stage. Dr D.C.Misra Free Lance Scholar and Independent Researcher
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