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

2008-12-11 Thread Milos Rancic
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?

2008-12-09 Thread Platonides
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, sta

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

2008-12-09 Thread Dennis During
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

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

2008-12-09 Thread the wub
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: >>> * Expres

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

2008-12-09 Thread Thomas Dalton
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 >> * Expre

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

2008-12-09 Thread Delirium
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, sta

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

2008-12-09 Thread Thomas Dalton
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 So

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

2008-12-09 Thread geni
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 So

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

2008-12-09 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
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 So

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

2008-12-09 Thread Ziko van Dijk
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