Abstract Wikipedia/Abstract Wikipedia naming contest/Wikimedia Stencil

Wikimedia Stencil

Did you know that the software powering the first wiki w:WikiWikiWeb, which at the time was also named WikiWikiWeb and now is named WikiBase (not to be confused with the Wikimedia software called Wikibase which powers Wikidata and other structures data repositories), was intended to be used to collect together 'patterns' (ways to do a particular thing well, in that case software development) in a sort of reference work called the Portland Pattern Repository? Well, if you didn't, it's not really relevant except that Wikipedia wouldn't start with wiki- in a timeline that didn't include the PPR, and neither would any other WMF project, so it's historically influential.

A w:stencil is a machine to make more of a pattern, and it occurs to me that at the heart of the idea once known as Abstract Wikipedia is the desire to take something that is working (a model encyclopedia article) and not have to completely reinvent it in order to share it with any given additional language community.

Votes

Proposed by User:Arlo Barnes
Support I find this interesting, and it inspired a similar suggestion from me "... Blueprint". --99of9 (talk) 09:51, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Connected to art, especially drawings, more so than functions in Wikipedias.--Snævar (talk) 15:35, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Feedback about the translatability of this proposal is welcome; see this similar thread during the naming contest for Wikifunctions. — Arlo Barnes (talk) 03:53, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Why did you choose Wikimedia rather than Wikipedia? --99of9 (talk) 09:51, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It still is ambiguous at this stage whether only encyclopedic and dictionary content would be stored in abstract (functional) form or whether other projects might become involved if the basic idea proves successful (perhaps most prominently Wikibooks and Wikivoyage?) so I left it with the 'wider' brand. As to which one has more name recognition, now we stray into questions perhaps better addressed on another page. Arlo Barnes (talk) 08:48, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]