Knowino:Archive/Our name

Hello! Thanks for your interest in this project. We are a very young, fledgling site, and pretty much everything here is open to change by the community. That includes our site-name. Our site-name is important. It will affect the logo and people's perceptions of the project, and it will be spoken in meatspace conversations. We also need to keep in mind that, once the project is established and advertised, it will be quite difficult to change its name.

At the moment, the project's name is Tendrl. However, I've made it clear from the very start that "Tendrl" is just a temporary solution (although, of course, we may decide to keep it), and I'd love to hear suggestions for a better one. I've heard a number of possibilities already, but one that I particularly like is Knowino. (Credit goes to Boris Tsirelson for that name.)

I'd like to hear your opinions on the name for this project, and I welcome any and all suggestions. Please post them on this page!—Thomas Larsen (talk) 02:51, 12 December 2010 (CST)

Knowino

 * People who like it: —Thomas Larsen (talk) 02:52, 12 December 2010 (CST)
 * People who don't like it:

Associations

 * It sounds a little like "Now-I-Know!"—Thomas Larsen (talk) 02:51, 12 December 2010 (CST)
 * It suggests a kind of "particle of knowledge" (on the pattern of "neutrino", for example).—Thomas Larsen (talk) 02:51, 12 December 2010 (CST)

Tendrl

 * People who like it:


 * As awful as I think it is (Tendril would be better), look at the biggest sites out there... eBay??? Amazon? Even Google is a silly name.  Their names have nothing to do with anything, and yet are household words.  It is silly enough to be brilliant. Human 21:53, 13 December 2010 (CST)


 * I agree with you about the silliness of a name not really counting against it. The trouble with "Tendril" (with the "i") is that tendril.org is already taken, and it would probably cost a substantial amount to buy the domain.—Thomas Larsen (talk) 22:02, 13 December 2010 (CST)


 * People who don't like it:

Associations

 * It has connotations of plant tendrils (links between bits of knowledge)?—Thomas Larsen (talk) 02:50, 12 December 2010 (CST)

Name
I personally believe the term wiki should somehow be involved with the name as Tendrl is a wiki. Some ideas:


 * wikiKnowledge
 * wikiKnow
 * KnowledgeWiki

Mary Ash 11:44, 14 December 2010 (CST)


 * I disagree (as a contributor, not in any kind of official capacity). There are so many "wiki"s out there (Wikipedia, Wikinfo, WikiHow, and so on) that the term has lost a lot of the novelty it once had. It's quite likely that people would confuse WikiKnow (for example) with, say, WikiHow or Wikinfo. I think we need to have an unusual, quirky, and memorable name. Tendrl qualifies, I think, but it's too easy to type out "Tendril" (with the "i") instead of "Tendrl". What do you think?—Thomas Larsen (talk) 20:55, 16 December 2010 (CST)
 * Everytime I read the name I think of Know a Wino... :-) I'm sorry. Mary Ash 09:03, 18 December 2010 (EST)


 * The changeover may have been a little quick; I would have given it a little more time for discussion first. Adam 10:00, 18 December 2010 (EST)