Ziko van Dijk wrote: > 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 > On the English Wikipedia, and occasionally Commons, I'd put Wikipedia-policy acronyms above all those in both frequency of use and likelihood of confusing or putting off newbies.
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