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

[Amir E. Aharoni]

2008/12/9 Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk at googlemail.com>:
> 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

Add to that "!vote". I program C and Perl, and it took me a while to
understand it.

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