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The original silly idea of [[Mark]] in the new fashion of <tt>.wiki</tt>. Means a wiki about switches. Is that electrical or some gender fluid thingy? Is there any relation at all to what we do here? Would anybody encountering the name Switch.wiki get the idea that htis might be the place where they would find an index of wikis? [[User:Manorainjan|Manorainjan]] ([[User talk:Manorainjan|talk]]) 06:53, 14 March 2015 (UTC) | The original silly idea of [[Mark]] in the new fashion of <tt>.wiki</tt>. Means a wiki about switches. Is that electrical or some gender fluid thingy? Is there any relation at all to what we do here? Would anybody encountering the name Switch.wiki get the idea that htis might be the place where they would find an index of wikis? [[User:Manorainjan|Manorainjan]] ([[User talk:Manorainjan|talk]]) 06:53, 14 March 2015 (UTC) | ||
:It obviously means [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000I9B2LE this type of switch]. It's a metaphor for how you go to WikiIndex and from there can choose to go to one of many wikis via the hyperlinks from the articles. Kinda like how a cable goes into the switch and then you can turn the dial to create a connection to one of four cables on the other side of the switch. Anyone seeing the URL <tt>switch.wiki</tt> would immediately realize "oh, this must be a wiki that has an index of other wikis so that I can navigate from that wiki to any of those other wikis in the same way that I could turn a dial on an RJ-45 switch to change which cable I'm connecting to." [[User:Leucosticte|Leucosticte]] ([[User talk:Leucosticte|talk]]) 07:13, 14 March 2015 (UTC) | :It obviously means [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000I9B2LE this type of switch]. It's a metaphor for how you go to WikiIndex and from there can choose to go to one of many wikis via the hyperlinks from the articles. Kinda like how a cable goes into the switch and then you can turn the dial to create a connection to one of four cables on the other side of the switch. Anyone seeing the URL <tt>switch.wiki</tt> would immediately realize "oh, this must be a wiki that has an index of other wikis so that I can navigate from that wiki to any of those other wikis in the same way that I could turn a dial on an RJ-45 switch to change which cable I'm connecting to." [[User:Leucosticte|Leucosticte]] ([[User talk:Leucosticte|talk]]) 07:13, 14 March 2015 (UTC) | ||
::This is not a fact. You are rightfully using the term '''RJ-45 switch''' to indicate a switch that connects to one of several RJ-45 cables. If You want to turn on a light, You got to use a light switch. The proper name therefore would include the type of options between You are switching. The type of options is '''wiki''' here. Therefore the correct domain name incorporating the idea of a switch would be '''wiki-switch.wiki''' expressing that it is a switch to chose between several wikis and that this switch itself is a wiki. Just instead of calling it basically an index, You call it a switch. Instead of wiki-index.wiki or wikiindex.wiki it would be wiki-switch.wiki or wikiswitch.wiki. If at all we would assume that nearly everybody imagines a RJ-45 switch or any other network-swich wich are commonly called simply 'switch' than switch.wiki would indicate for them a wiki about those family of devices, just like weed.wiki was a wiki about weed ;-) --[[User talk:Manorainjan|'''<span style="color: orange;">Manorainjan</span>''']] 04:16, 11 December 2017 (PST) | |||
::A word about shortening names: In any case where a specific name is used extensively people try to shorten it. Therefore You can shorten in any given context the name of that entity which is most commonly used and referred to. For example: When You are in the context of motorcycles You can talk about bikes and trikes omitting the cycle-part. But outside of the community of cyclists it would not make any sense. And the internet surfer as such, the one using google to find anything, is outside of any community or specific context. The specific context of wikis is not entered before one has opened the pages of wikiindex. While looking for anything that helps finding wikis on the internet, one is in the most common and unspecialised context. therefore, to omit the wiki-part in the domain name is always wrong. the TLD .wiki can not replace it. .wiki can replace the .com or .org and those last TLDs are in no way wiki-related. --[[User talk:Manorainjan|'''<span style="color: orange;">Manorainjan</span>''']] 04:16, 11 December 2017 (PST) | |||
==Names in the logo== | ==Names in the logo== | ||