Re: [Foundation-l] Usability: Is our vocabulary SNAFU?

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:48 AM, Platonides [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It surprised me that the jargon didn't mention the really wikimedian terms: AGF, RFA, NPV, NOR, NLT, BLP, NPA, AFD, db... After IAR and BOLD, you're blocked for NPA and NLT on a BLP article where you didn't follow NPV,

Re: [Foundation-l] Usability: Is our vocabulary SNAFU?

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

Re: [Foundation-l] Usability: Is our vocabulary SNAFU?

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

Re: [Foundation-l] Usability: Is our vocabulary SNAFU?

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

Re: [Foundation-l] Usability: Is our vocabulary SNAFU?

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

Re: [Foundation-l] Usability: Is our vocabulary SNAFU?

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

Re: [Foundation-l] Usability: Is our vocabulary SNAFU?

2008/12/9 Thomas Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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

Re: [Foundation-l] Usability: Is our vocabulary SNAFU?

I am enormously skeptical that there is any realistic possibility of getting anyone let alone unpaid volunteers to forego the use of abbreviations or useful jargon. OTOH (LOL), I believe that there are MediaWiki software extensions (which I enjoy using at Wiktionary) that allow a window to pop up