Let's brainstorm a name for the next version of TiddlyWiki

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I like all of them, but mostly Platiki as sounds well in Spanish and in other romance languages, I imagine is easy to pronounce in other languages and has an interesting short motto behind that represents well TW: wiki as a your flexible platform. Also Platiki sounds like platicar (to talk, in Spanish) which is a pretty fluent widely available experience (kind of using TW).

In the same venue of Platiki, Flexiki could work… but I like more the former.

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Plat has a total other meaning in Danish https://en.bab.la/dictionary/danish-english/plat But of course Denmark is a tiny country
With a name like that - I am nervous to ask what the tiddlers will be called.

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Yet another wiki name: YAWN

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Isn’t there some form of that already used with YAML? I know I’ve seen it on github.

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Iceberg could also work. The basic wiki functionality is just what you see above the water, with a whole lot more below the surface.

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I think the name TiddlyWiki gives the first impression that it is not a note taking software, but a wiki that requires programming skills to use.

The wiki is probably something that belongs to the old era, the new era gimmick is the note taking operating system, for example heptabase.

So we should change the wiki. For example, it can be changed to “Tidos” or something like that to make it look more like note taking software.

These words make me think of in a dendrite, maybe it is good name. Although Dendron sounds better for me, but there is a “app” for notetaking with this name :frowning:

An alternative is Geode where the core is the sorrounding rock. It sounds fine, although it could need to have a compound name.

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The apple company has different names for each version of macOS - usually names of mounts and places, the Ubuntu community also has different names for each version of the Ubuntu linux distro - for example animal names

People who helped the community the most could have tiddlywiki version names. as

  1. “tiddlywiki-alvaro” @Alvaro
  2. “tiddlywiki-twtones” @TW_Tones
  3. “tiddlywiki-justinH” @Justin_H
    … etc

It would be a gesture of gratitude, a non-capitalist reward with a lot of added value for the tiddlywiki community

And a lot of others @JohnMatthew,

@EricShulman @pmario @saqimtiaz to name but a few.
See the bottom of each release, https://tiddlywiki.com/#Releases but yes we could acknowledge those not submitting only core changes

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Agreed, there are a ton of users who’ve done so much for the community (I’m not sure I’ve done a whole lot to be honest ^^;) but it would be neat to see usernames used as version alias or codenames!

I was actually thinking something akin to using types of fish, but this seems like a more wholesome idea :smiley:

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Thanks @JohnMatthew for the mention in the helper group. It is really appreciated.

I see a problem with this “communtiy version”. It could generate ¿discomfort? (I don’t know if I chose the correct word in English) based on different subjetive opinions about that users appear and the order. Anyone could misunderstand it. I think it is the reason because they don’t use names of persons/users.

It is just a matter of removing subjectivity, adopting something “rational”, “objective” and" “logical” as

  • user with the highest number of topics answered
  • user with the most lines submitted on the tiddlywiki project’s GitHub
  • User with the longest time on the forum
  • user vote that will be released in the version - the user with the most votes wins
  • users with the most likes
  • users with the most topics written

Hihi,

So to be remembered as tiddlywiki-pmario the version where he added most of the new bugs :wink:

Librewiki? The essence seems to accurately reflect.
https://librewiki.ru/

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Please don’t change the name, it took me a few years to spell it right once :grinning:

“tiddler” is translated by Google as “鲰”, a Chinese character that even Chinese professors don’t recognize. If “tiddler” is in the sentence, Google must translate it as “提琴手(fiddler)”.

Maybe it can be named Harp Wiki, it’s beautiful and elegant, but it’s too difficult to play, haha~~~

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TWW - recursive acronym for TiddlyWiki Wiki (like PHP) ?

:man_shrugging:

Or T2W/T2W/T2W/TwW

Honestly overall I would stick with TiddlyWiki - not least because of its uniqueness and hence searchability. Also - changing the name seems at odds with one of the USPs of TW - longevity.

Neat idea.

For those not familiar, here is the idea of recursive acronyms.

A famous one is …

— GNU (GNU is Not Unix)

I don’t see, so clearly, how you could do it for “TiddlyWiki”, though I’d see it for “TW” IF you changed the name to “Total Wiki”. (TW is Total Wiki)

Meanwhile African Mailman …

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I think the simplest option has been overlooked: just truncate “Tiddly”

TidWiki

  • still has TW as an acronym
  • Significant overlap with Tiddlywiki maintains a lot of the searchability. For me Tiddlywiki is the #1 result when i search for TidWiki. “TidWiki macros” still brings up macro documentation, etc.
  • Tid is not offputting like Tiddly
  • Tiddlers could be called Tidbits
  • TID could become a backronym
    • The In-Depth Wiki
    • The Infinite Domain Wiki
    • etc

Its a small change, it preserves the essence of the old name without being offputting, its shorter, and it doesn’t really break searchability so it could be rolled out ASAP.

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Spot on! Tidbits are central to English cultures in cuisine and information.

It is also accurate to TW architectures.

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