I heartily agree, something like that would be good. The policy I've adopted is that any abbreviation I use is available as such on wiki.electorama.com. For instance, if I say CW, just go to http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/CW and you'll find the definition.
I've encouraged others to adopt this policy. Some have agreed to do so, some haven't. Jameson 2012/2/2 Ted Stern <[email protected]> > I have a simple request for those posting to this list: > > If you use abbreviations for voting methods, please include a small > glossary at the end of your message. For example, > > ... here I'm saying something about DMC, GATV, and IBIFA ... > > [... rest of text ...] > > Glossary: > DMC: Definitive Majority Choice (a Condorcet method) > GATV: Graded Approval Transferable Vote (quota-based PR method based on > ER-Bucklin) > IBIFA: Irrelevant Ballot Independent Fallback Approval (Chris Benham > single-winner method based on ER-Bucklin) > > If you make a file containing your usual terms, you can just include > it at the end of your message. > > Okay, maybe that isn't such a simple request ;-), but it would really > help, especially when certain posters use a whirlwind of initialisms > that I didn't pay attention to when they introduced them in 20 > separate messages 28 months ago ... > > Ted > -- > araucaria dot araucana at gmail dot com > > ---- > Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info >
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