2009/7/18 Luna lunasantin@gmail.com:
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.