stevertigo wrote:
Nikola Smolenski wrote:
I suggest a hatnote on the main page of the site:
"This is the website
of Wikimedia United Kingdom. For other uses, see
uk.wikimedia.org
(disambiguation)."
I actually coined the word "hatnote" - probably in violation of
our
'no neologisms' policy.
I don't know about the "no neologisms" rule, but it did come up
some
time ago in Wiktionary on the basis that you can't just invent a word
for the sake of putting it into a dictionary. There had to be evidence
of the word's prior usage. Somebody there invented the term
"protologism" for a word that did not yet fit the standard for neologisms.
A neologism is most effective when everybody that reads it knows what it
means without ever having seen it before.
Ec