2008/12/9 Ziko van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > About usability: I believe that one significant barrier for new Wikimedians > is the jargon in the Wikimedia projects, mostly in discussions, but also in > help pages: > * Expressions from computer science: IP, bug, URL > * Expressions from the Open Source movement: fork, stable version > * Expressions from the net culture: imho, :D, lol, @ (directed to a person > in a discussion) > * For non native speakers of English: SNAFU, dude > > Jargon (sometimes specialist's language) cannot be totally avoided, and it > is good for community cohesion. But it would be a good step towards > usability thinking before using jargon: is it really necessary here, is it > comprehensive to everybody, even if "help:glossary" mentions it? > > Ziko
Fortunately with the possible exceptions of IP and URL you don't actually need any of those to edit wikipedia. -- geni _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
