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 -- Ziko van Dijk NL-Silvolde _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
