2008/12/9 Delirium <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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.
At least those are generally linked, though. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
