2009/7/18 Luna <lunasantin(a)gmail.com>om>:
Obviously I can't speak to specifics, but
especially when talking with
people outside the usual Wikipedia sphere, it's all too easy to get vague
about terms. Take deletion as an example: if something's "deleted", was
the
text deleted from the current revision, was the revision itself deleted (or
perhaps oversighted), or was the article as a whole deleted by an admin? Any
of those are potentially valid uses of the word, so it's hard to be specific
unless someone is aware of and considering those various meanings.
Our internal jargon is *not English*, it just uses English words. This
is important to keep in mind when analysing what a newspaper article
about Wikipedia means. Even in the NYT, which is very clueful about
Wikipedia as media go, I am pleased when they get anything right
rather than upset when they get anything wrong.
- d.