I think as long as it's pretty obvious from the context that Wikimedia is not establishing a sovereign socialist nation, we should be fine with the current terminology.
*-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | [email protected] On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 7:48 PM, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: > Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > >On 04/06/2013 09:16 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > >> By the way, it would be lovely not to call communication like > >> nationalization... sometimes I see people coming to communities saying > >> they're socializing something and it feels weird. ;-) (Especially as > >> it's false good news.) > >> > >> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/socialize > >> (transitive) To take into collective or governmental ownership > >> > >> Nemo > > > >Nemo, I have sympathy for you here -- it took a while for me to get > >used to the use of "socialize" in the way the Wikimedia communities use > >it. [...] > > I don't have much sympathy. Looking at > <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/socialization>: > > --- > 1. The process of learning one's culture > <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/culture> and how to live within it. > > 2. The act of interacting with others, of being social. > > 3. Taking under government control as implementing socialism. > --- > > Given the precedence here (the definition having to do with governments > and socialism is third), I don't think it's very reasonable to call the > usage within Wikimedia wrong or even noteworthy. > > My local dictionary (New Oxford American Dictionary) also lists the > socialism definition third. > > So, yes, if you choose to ignore the primary and secondary definitions, > the tertiary definition isn't a great fit. This is why it's the tertiary > definition, of course. > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
