Yet another kibble... I like that TiddlyWiki has user choice configuration in $:/language/DefaultNewTiddlerTitle renaming to new dot/tip/card/memex/<whatever pet name you choose>
Thankfully, there is little cognitive effort to understand that my new pet name for wiki entries is just a tiddler in TiddlyWiki. TiddlyWiki and tiddler are unique names, 16 years and running. Gosh, tiddler is even famous enough to be in the popular Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiddlyWiki#Tiddlers I like what Charlie said here: "To me, I wouldn't try convincing folk of using "TiddlyWiki" as a solution to a problem. TiddlyWiki is the platform with which I would build the solution. The name I then give to the solution is what I use. The name is different for every solution." Why change now? Even kids wanna fork vim use vim in the NeoVim name? What's a vim? git? emacs? grep? ed? awk? I think Users gonna Use regardless, or git out. [1] That said, if tiddlers were renamed kibbles, I'd still use KibblyWiki, no problems Best, tony [1] Over the years we've had consistent feedback on the name "TiddlyWiki" that ranges between: * I don't care about the name, it's just a meaningless string of letters * I think the name is fine, it's distinctive, and has few false positives when Googling On Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at 3:28:02 PM UTC-8 TW Tones wrote: > For clarity, > > Mark, I am Australian , lived in Papua new Guinea and New Zealand as a > Child, tiddler always implied small and diminutive, but the children's game > TiddlyWinks is a dominant thought. The idea of a tiddler as a fish to throw > back if caught may have proceeded my discovery of tiddler in tiddlywiki. > From memory now clouded by what I know now, was a Tiddle or Twiddle was > used for a pee. > > Not withstanding these similar sounding words, uniqueness is of great > value, and we learn to assign meaning. It is only in the outreach to new > users where somewhat arbitrary names do not carry information and this can > be addressed by surrounding the use of the word with information and > explanation. > > Look at a google search of tiddler, first page I see the following that > money could not buy; > [image: Snag_19d10b0a.png] > > *Meme* > There is a thing called an *internet meme*, but if you are interested > please research the original meaning. It is a cultural / intellectual > corollary of the Gene coined I thing by Richard Dawkins. The thing is memes > can survive and propagate in in minds and culture. To degrade the meaning > of meme to popular cats is degrading our language and the word. But it can > also get people to look that may otherwise not. > > Traditionally a tiddler would also be considered a *record*, with its > unique key, this has a specific technical meaning but also to some degree a > common English meaning. I wonder if this is the case in other languages? > > *Record* > As I have voiced at length in the past, tiddlywiki places the "record" at > eye level and treats it as an every day object the tiddler, this is perhaps > one of tiddlywiki's key features, in other cases records are hidden, or > there contents in attachment's. Tiddlywiki then provides the tools to list > and tabulate records, including those that describe the UI and add > functionality. > > The synonyms of "record" list many of the things someone may use > tiddlywiki for. see here https://www.lexico.com/synonyms/record > > And I notice tiddlywiki is also "record breaking"; > *record-breaking*, best ever, its best, one's best, optimum, unbeaten, > unsurpassed, unparalleled, unequalled, superlative, second to none, never > previously achieved > > Tones > On Thursday, 31 December 2020 at 04:27:23 UTC+11 Mark S. wrote: > >> It would be interesting if people posted their approximate geographical >> location, where they grew up, and what the word "tiddler" suggests to them. >> >> When you've never heard a word, your brain reaches for the closest one it >> can think of. >> >> To most members of the largest English speaking country on the planet -- >> larger than the UK by a factor of 6 -- "tiddler" doesn't mean anything. I >> grew up with fishermen, and no one used "tiddler". >> >> However, this very bad, very similar-sounding word >> <https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Diddler> does mean >> something to anyone who reads modern literature or watches Netflix. Be sure >> to scroll down to look at definition #2. To be sure, it's a recent >> definition, coming in the last 30 years or so. But that's how language >> changes. >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/2bfb0e9e-668d-45da-94fc-f37e289008ben%40googlegroups.com.
