{"id":757,"date":"2006-06-23T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-24T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2006\/06\/23\/turtles-dont-drive\/"},"modified":"2006-06-23T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-24T02:00:00","slug":"turtles-dont-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2006\/06\/23\/turtles-dont-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Turtles Don&#039;t Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still alive, but no excitement to report.  I&#8217;ve been working on an open source project called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vqwiki.org\/\">Very Quick Wiki<\/a> intermittently over the past few months, but due to some differences of opinion with the guy running the project I decided to work on my own version about a week ago, and have been putting in a ton of hours on that since &#8211; I actually didn&#8217;t sleep a few nights ago while trying to get some coding done.  The end result (hopefully) will be a Java clone of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediawiki.org\/\">MediaWiki<\/a> software that runs sites like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/\">Wikipedia<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikitravel.org\/\">Wikitravel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The development of the code is going well &#8211; I should have it running on this site in a week or two &#8211; but I need help with the name for the project.  I&#8217;ve been calling it &#8220;Java MediaWiki&#8221;, &#8217;cause, well, that&#8217;s what it is and I&#8217;m not creative, but I&#8217;m fairly sure there are trademarks around &#8220;MediaWiki&#8221;.  After drinking some wine Audrey and I came up with &#8220;JAM Wiki&#8221;, which sounds like an acronymn for &#8220;<b>J<\/b>av<b>A<\/b> <b>M<\/b>ediaWiki&#8221; and has the added benefit of being pronounced &#8220;Yahm VeeKee&#8221; in Swedish, but after sobering up again I&#8217;m not so sure about that one.  And no, Centrificon is just not gonna work this time.  So if anyone has suggestions I&#8217;d love to hear them, and if I use your suggestion then you&#8217;ll not only receive fame and glory, but I&#8217;ll either buy you a beer the next time I see you or else send you a picture of a squirrel on waterskis (up to you).  Things to consider:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The domain name (or something reasonably similar) needs to be available.<\/li>\n<li>Ideally the name would convey the idea that the project is a MediaWiki clone written in Java, but that&#8217;s secondary to just sounding cool.<\/li>\n<li>Examples of &#8220;good&#8221; names for other products include &#8220;Google&#8221;, &#8220;MediaWiki&#8221;, &#8220;Mozilla&#8221;, and &#8220;Tivo&#8221;.  Not-so-good names include &#8220;Mind Rockets&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>The domain name will probably need to be 6-10 characters, so the name should either be short or truncate nicely.  For example, &#8220;Java MediaWiki&#8221; truncates easily (and obviously) to &#8220;jmwiki&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>I may not actually be the photographer of the squirrel on waterskis photo, so you shouldn&#8217;t plan on using it commercially.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Suggestions are welcome, the comments link is below&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still alive, but no excitement to report. I&#8217;ve been working on an open source project called Very Quick Wiki intermittently over the past few months, but due to some differences of opinion with the guy running the project I decided to work on my own version about a week ago, and have been putting in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2006\/06\/23\/turtles-dont-drive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Turtles Don&#039;t Drive&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}