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Wikicore

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The term "Wikicore" is short, simple and memorable, and follows the naming pattern of most Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wikibooks, etc.). An alternative form of this name could be Corewiki.

The "core" part is a reference both to it being the origin of content that gets rendered into multiple languages, and a nod to the core encyclopedic content which will probably be part of the priority content to be developed in the new project.

Furthermore, this name does not suggest a narrowing down of the content of the new project towards encyclopedic articles only, and therefore would make it more inviting to other multilingual content like (as speculative examples) Wikidata item descriptions, Meta page contents, Commons category descriptions, Wikivoyage guides, etc.

Votes

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  1. Proposed by User:Waldyrious
  2. Support Support -- Asked42 (talk) 06:53, 12 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Support Support This is strong and modern IMO. --99of9 (talk) 09:47, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Support Support Captures the essence of the project (and is also quite easy to remember); you've got my vote! Red Sneak (talk) 10:50, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Support Support This was what I thought immediately when I saw the proposal, a tool that produces the core information about a subject. Evel Prior (talk) 11:47, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Support Support shb (t • c) 11:50, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Support Support Arian Talk 11:54, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Support Support Support as a second choice to 'Multilingual Wikipedia' Xeroctic (talk) 12:04, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Support Support Hehua (talk) 13:18, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Support Support Léna (talk) 13:33, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Support Support Agree with the logic that this is inline with naming of other Wiki projects. And the use of work 'Core' denotes that it has core/abstract info DhavalTalk 15:26, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Support Support I like this name and the explanation relating to things beyond the language wikipedias. ArthurPSmith (talk) 15:46, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Support Support RailwayEnthusiast2025 (talk) 18:50, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  14. Support Support Reciprocus (talk) 20:17, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Support Support Cantons-de-l'Est (talk) 21:13, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  16. Support Support Anohthterwikipedian (talk) 22:01, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  17. Support Support 𝓛𝓮𝓸𝗞 𝗮 𝗻 𝗱 (talk) 07:14, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  18. Support Support Not so understandable for non-english though :/ 𝓔𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓸𝓹𝔂 Fighter 💬 08:40, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  19. Support Support Challwa (talk) 09:31, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  20. Support Support Repakr (talk) 11:54, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  21. Support Support ThadeusOfNazereth (talk) 13:35, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  22. Oppose Oppose --Prototyperspective (talk) 13:44, 21 October 2025 (UTC) (see discussion)[reply]
  23. Support Support ··· 🌸 Rachmat04 · ☕️ 14:35, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  24. Support Support -- Ferien (talk) 20:08, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  25. Support Support -- clear and catchy for muggles, makes significant intuitive sense, and isn't Wikipedia-specific. Ijon (talk) 22:02, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  26. Oppose Oppose due to the word "core" in terms of overall wiki infrastructure refers to "MediaWiki core". Hakimi97 (talk) 23:46, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  27. Oppose Oppose see hidden discussion below. Name ist already in use, and this is not the core of the Wikiverse. Grüße vom Sänger ♫(Reden) 11:23, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  28. Support Support Gryllida 11:39, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  29. Support Support Captures the essance perfictly! JhowieNitnek (talk) 14:06, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  30. Oppose Oppose YoshiRulz (talk) 17:57, 22 October 2025 (UTC) (see discussion)[reply]
  31. Oppose Oppose per Hakimi. Aaron Liu (talk) 21:15, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  32. Oppose Oppose per Prototyperperspective. * Pppery * it has begun 03:04, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  33. Oppose Oppose Per Prototyperspective. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 21:39, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  34. Oppose Oppose too generic, could be the core wikipedia tech engine or similar. Leobard (talk) 21:43, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  35. Oppose Oppose ambiguous name. --Namoroka (talk) 10:19, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  36. Support Support --Mormegil (cs) 09:26, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  37. Support Support THE IT (talk) 21:42, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

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  • The core of the Wikiverse are the users, that generate the content. Some dumb algorithm, that creates sentences from data is in no way the core of the Wikiverse, not even remotely. Grüße vom Sänger ♫(Reden) 10:44, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Oppose per above. It is not and will not be the core of Wikipedia. Corewiki would be even more misleading, confusing and false. However, I prefer Wikicore above all the proposals with both "Wikipedia" and a reference to languages in the title because that will be misleading to even more users. Wikicore does kind of make sense in that this could maybe be used to create a few imo likely usually rather useless sentences about data points across languages which would form a 'core' of an article to develop an actual article from. Again, it's nevertheless misleading as people wouldn't know this and may not understand it even if it was explained somewhere. --Prototyperspective (talk) 13:44, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Oppose This name is generic for sure, IMO to a fault. "Core" does invoke the idea of something that's shared between Wikimedia projects, but for code rather than content (an association probably due to my experience as a programmer). In any case, if this new project is the "core", what does that make Wikifunctions? YoshiRulz (talk) 17:57, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]


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