David,
 This is a small but nice tutorial on Tiddlywiki edition: Maarfapad

https://cdn.rawgit.com/abesamma/TW5-editions/78846468/empty.html

--Mohammad

On Wednesday, February 19, 2020 at 5:33:46 AM UTC+3:30, David Gifford wrote:
>
> The Hackaday name to this thread hides the importance of this thread. Glad 
> I happened to notice how many posts it had, to see that it had to do with 
> something as momentous as a namechange for TW.
>
> Reactions:
>
> 1) Oh, dear, no more dilly-dallying or shilly-shallying willy-nilly in 
> TiddlyWiki. :-)
>
> 2) I would agree that it is hard to avoid hearing snickers when I mention 
> I use something called "TiddlyWiki", and don't see downsides. A name change 
> won't attract people, but it will reduce a barrier.
>
> 3) All the good ones are taken: NoteStack, JotStack, WikiStack, 
> NoteConnect, NoteGarden, IdeaGarden, NoteBoat, IdeaBucket, ThoughtRiver, 
> BrainCapture, Brainstream, ideastream, notestream, ... Would have been 
> easier to do this years ago...FreeBrain looks like it is not taken, but 
> someone could confuse it with FreeMind, which is taken (mindmapping)...
>
> 4) Some criteria: 
> a) Easy to say, rolls off the tongue, the spelling does not leave the 
> pronunciation ambiguous (illo: Mindriver = MindRiver or MinDriver?)
> b) Not offputting for either non-techy users or serious coders (e.g. not 
> "ConcatenationWiki") 
> c) Nothing obscene or tiddlating :-) (I am North American but had not 
> heard of tiddler being considered obscene.)
> d) Nothing that will become obsolete, like a reference to a trend (not 
> "NoteCardashians")
> e) Fits no matter how it is used - node.js, standalone, local, online or 
> from USB 
> f) I like cards for tiddlers but if 'cards' is in the name of the file, 
> people might assume it is a flashcard program
>
> 5) Another option for tiddlers instead of cards might be 'tiles' - but 
> please not TileyWiki. And lots of 'tile' names like Tile Pile and 
> tilestream are taken too...
>
> 6) Cynical options, all in good fun: LearningCurve, EndlessFiddlyWiki, 
> ListFilterLabrynth...
>
> Oh well, that is my initial response. Hope you had fun reading it. Some 
> points are serious, others not so much...
>
> On Monday, February 17, 2020 at 10:12:44 AM UTC-6, Jeremy Ruston wrote:
>>
>> Just to add to Mark's comment: It has been clear for a few years that 
>> some users find the terms "TiddlyWiki" and "tiddler" to be a barrier to 
>> taking it seriously. In particular, while the word "tiddler" is common and 
>> innocent enough in Britain, it appears that for quite a few North American 
>> users it carries obscene connotations that they consider self-evident.
>>
>> There's an example in this recent tweet:
>>
>> > It's all fun and games until you pass away and your significant other 
>> has to log into something called TiddlyWiki and browse through Tiddlers to 
>> find your last will testament.
>>
>> (See https://twitter.com/remembersonly/status/1228729946656428032)
>>
>> I have recently been thinking through what would be involved in a name 
>> change, and am starting to think that it might not be a terrible idea.
>>
>> In order to understand some of the issues, I made a very simple 
>> experiment where I wrote a script that takes the prerelease index.html and 
>> applies the following four global search and replacements across the file:
>>
>> * TiddlyWiki --> FooBarWiki
>> * tiddlywiki --> foobarwiki
>> * Tiddler --> Card
>> * tiddler --> card
>>
>> The result is a fully functional TiddlyWiki with no remaining references 
>> to the words "tiddlywiki" or "tiddler". Not only is the user interface text 
>> fixed, the `<$tiddler>` widget becomes the `<$card>` widget, and the 
>> `<$tranclude tiddler=foo/>` widget becomes `<$tranclude card=foo/>` etc.
>>
>> That simple approach is unlikely to be the way that we'd want to approach 
>> the name change, but it establishes the technical feasibility of changing 
>> the name.
>>
>> We'd need to provide an upgrade path for existing users. Perhaps we'd 
>> keep tiddlywiki.com running for 12 months with a build that uses the 
>> terms TiddlyWiki and tiddler, and a separate build at foobarwiki.com 
>> with the new terminology. We'd also need a conversion tool for updating 
>> individual wikis: we could offer an online tool and a command line option 
>> for Node.js.
>>
>> There's lots of interesting questions to consider before we even try to 
>> settle on the new name itself, and I'm interested to hear other views.
>>
>> * Is it worth the effort of changing the name?
>> * What are the downsides of doing so?
>> * Coming up with suggestions for the new name is relatively easy, but 
>> what are the criteria that we should use to test the new name? (We wouldn't 
>> want to have to change it again)
>> * Should we seek to keep things simple by choosing a name that retains 
>> the TW initials?
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jeremy Ruston
>> [email protected]
>> https://jermolene.com
>>
>> On 17 Feb 2020, at 15:53, 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> These discussions about extending the outreach of TW always center around 
>> some hypothetical
>> newby who is turned away by the complexity of TW. The reality is, that 
>> the first time we
>> learn of the existence of a new comer, they're asking for advice on some 
>> complicated,
>> convoluted mechanism that they've already devised. The technological 
>> barrier doesn't seem
>> to keep motivated people away.
>>
>> Listen to the Podcast. What's keeping people away is the *name*. 
>>
>> I know it's irrational to chose an information management system based on 
>> a name, but 
>> we live in an age of hyper-marketing -- everything gets marketed, 
>> branded, recognized. 
>> So if something is under-branded it goes nowhere no matter how good it is 
>> because it's 
>> up against hundreds of products with serious, professional sounding names.
>>
>> The name TiddlyWiki suggests a kid's game or plaything. It suggests 
>> something that
>> someone made for fun but won't be here tomorrow. It doesn't suggest 
>> something that
>> you could do serious work with or store your vital information in. It 
>> doesn't suggest
>> something that will be here in 25 years. 
>>
>> OneNote, Evernote, Cintanotes, Google Keep ... all have names that you're 
>> not afraid
>> to say in an IT staff meeting. Names you don't have to mumble under your 
>> breath
>> when you explain how you did something. And, you don't have to actually 
>> get rid of
>> the name TiddlyWiki. You just make the publicly visible name something 
>> like "TW Technology."  "Wiki-T" .
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, February 15, 2020 at 10:28:06 AM UTC-8, bimlas wrote:
>>>
>>> A wave started which could make TiddlyWiki more and more famous. *Now* 
>>> we might need to make it really user-friendly, so that new people can 
>>> easily get over the initial difficulties and stay with Tiddly.
>>>
>>>
>>> https://hackaday.com/2020/02/14/it-aint-over-til-the-paperwork-is-done-test-driving-tiddlywiki/
>>>
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