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by cxr 125 days ago
Why're "wiki"? Where wiki?
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It’s a wiki (loosely defined as an authoritative browsable graph / index) of everything that goes over the wire.
That's not even close to what "wiki" means. Couldn't you have spent two seconds looking up the term that you're using (a community-owned content/knowledge graph that's "collaboratively edited and managed by its audience directly through a web browser") before debasing it?

You've confused "wiki" and "encyclopedia"—getting them exactly backwards. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that's a wiki.

You're creating (or, at least, aiming to create) an online encyclopedia. But it's not a wiki.

"Wiki" normally refers to user-editable sites, while the graph part is normally implied from being a website. Perhaps Wiregraph would be more accurate? Maybe Wireview? These kinds of networking sites are often called looking glasses, so Wireglass might also work, besides the confusion with the material.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki#Alternative_definitions

[1]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wiki