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I was just thinking about something. If we call this Easton's Bible Dictionary...that's okay. But as we review and edit and add to it (you know, do those things that make a wiki a wiki) it will eventually be quite different from the original EBD. Maybe we should change the name to "WikiChristian's Bible Dictionary" and just say that it is BASED on the EBD. That way a year or two down the road, when we've edited things with it...we are still acurrate in the name. What does everyone think? Also, by linking to the external EBD we still give people a chance to see the original text of the EBD. [[User:Cpark|Cpark]] 08:39, 11 Mar 2005 (PST)
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All of Easton's Bible Dictionary has been uploaded, and can be accessed through [[Easton's Bible Dictionary Index]]. It would be excellent if we could eventually wikify this. --[[User:Graham grove|Graham grove]] 22:10, 22 September 2006 (PDT)
  
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== Naming convention? ==
  
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Hi. I guess this message is mainly concerned for me, Aquatiki and Kathleen, plus anyone else interested in the Easton's Bible Dictionary. All public domain texts that exist in WikiChristian or that are to be copied into WikiChristian are being moved into the new text namespace. This includes Easton Bible Dictionary entries. This raises the question of what the naming convention should be for these pages. As you know, there was no original standard with some being named "Free Bible Dictionary:Name of Entry", others being named "Bible Dictionary:Name of Entry" and still others being named "Easton's Bible Dictionary: Name of Entry" but these were standardized to to "Name of entry (EBD)". But now this needs to be changed to be in line with the text namespace. So, the options that I can think of include "Text:EBD:Name of Entry" or "Text:Easton's Bible Dictionary:Name of Entry". Are there any other options that people can think of. I think my personal favourite is "Text:Easton's Bible Dictionary:Name of Entry" but I'm happy with either of the above options. What do others think? --[[User:Graham grove|Graham grove]] 14:35, 3 October 2008 (PDT)
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Hi Cpark,
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: In the interest of typing three letters versus 25 characters, I vote EBD. We weren't typing ''Jeremiah (Easton's Bible Dictionary)'' but ''Jeremiah (EBD)''.  What other criteria can you think of for judging? --[[User:Aquatiki|Aquatiki]] 13:02, 4 October 2008 (PDT)
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:: True. EBD is a lot simpler. I can't think of any reason it shouldn't be simply "EBD". Shall we go with that then? --[[User:Graham grove|Graham grove]] 13:38, 4 October 2008 (PDT)
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I think it makes perfect sense to change the name since the idea was to develop a free wiki bible dictionary. Since we do not want to reinvent the wheel, we would like to use what ever is already in the public domain. EBD is one of the Bible Dictionaries in the PD but there are others also. We will change the name to WikiChristian's [[Free Bible Dictionary]] or in short FBD. Thanks for the excellent point. We need to think ahead while naming our projects, like in this situation, so that, when the wiki evolves, it does not have to change the name. [[User:Prab|Prab]] 6:45 PM, 11 Mar 2005 (EST)
 
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Prab, I think this makes sense. I looked through the recent changes and I was like..."wow." Thanks for saving me the trouble of moving most of the stuff! One last question....do we want the FBD pages to link to the main article (ie, "Abraham") or do we want them to link to the FBD page (ie "Free_Bible_Dictionary:Abraham") I know that in some cases we have a great number of articles written about someone (take Peter for instance. The "Peter" article links to Graham's article on the papacy, a short biography of Peter, and eventually it will also link to the FBD article on Peter. So, in my thinking we'll want the FBD index pages to just link directly to the FBD article and save users an extra click...but what does everyone else think? [[User:Cpark|Cpark]] 07:00, 12 Mar 2005 (PST)
 
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*We've had many of the same issues at Theowiki (see [http://www.theowiki.com/index.php/Talk:Easton%27s_Bible_Dictionary#Relationship_to_WikiSource.3F the EBD talk page]). I think we did it well by ''not'' creating special EBD (or Free Bible Dictionary) entry names.  Since you're modifying EBD entries anyway, it's probably better to do away with the FBD altogether since WikiChristian itself ''is'' your FBD (for that matter, don't bother recreating Smith's and maybe even Hitchcock's sources).  Does that make sense?  '''I do recommend, though, helping to create an untouched version of EBD on [http://wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page:English Wikisource]''', a site I hadn't thought about using for original sources until recently; including Bibles, of which they [http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Religious_texts#Bible already have a few]! --[[User:RockOfVictory|J. J.]] 09:14, 10 May 2005 (PDT)
 
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**An issue that I have been thinking about when it comes to links between wikis is that it takes people 'offsite' with no links bringing them back. I think this is an inherent problem with consolidating resources in one place. --[[User:Mustaphile|Mustaphile]] 14:51, 10 May 2005 (PDT)
 

Latest revision as of 20:38, 4 October 2008

All of Easton's Bible Dictionary has been uploaded, and can be accessed through Easton's Bible Dictionary Index. It would be excellent if we could eventually wikify this. --Graham grove 22:10, 22 September 2006 (PDT)

Naming convention?

Hi. I guess this message is mainly concerned for me, Aquatiki and Kathleen, plus anyone else interested in the Easton's Bible Dictionary. All public domain texts that exist in WikiChristian or that are to be copied into WikiChristian are being moved into the new text namespace. This includes Easton Bible Dictionary entries. This raises the question of what the naming convention should be for these pages. As you know, there was no original standard with some being named "Free Bible Dictionary:Name of Entry", others being named "Bible Dictionary:Name of Entry" and still others being named "Easton's Bible Dictionary: Name of Entry" but these were standardized to to "Name of entry (EBD)". But now this needs to be changed to be in line with the text namespace. So, the options that I can think of include "Text:EBD:Name of Entry" or "Text:Easton's Bible Dictionary:Name of Entry". Are there any other options that people can think of. I think my personal favourite is "Text:Easton's Bible Dictionary:Name of Entry" but I'm happy with either of the above options. What do others think? --Graham grove 14:35, 3 October 2008 (PDT)

In the interest of typing three letters versus 25 characters, I vote EBD. We weren't typing Jeremiah (Easton's Bible Dictionary) but Jeremiah (EBD). What other criteria can you think of for judging? --Aquatiki 13:02, 4 October 2008 (PDT)
True. EBD is a lot simpler. I can't think of any reason it shouldn't be simply "EBD". Shall we go with that then? --Graham grove 13:38, 4 October 2008 (PDT)
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