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

[Thomas Dalton]

2008/12/9 Delirium <delirium at hackish.org>:
> 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, stable version
>> * Expressions from the net culture: imho, :D, lol, @ (directed to a person
>> in a discussion)
>> * For non native speakers of English: SNAFU, dude
>>
> On the English Wikipedia, and occasionally Commons, I'd put
> Wikipedia-policy acronyms above all those in both frequency of use and
> likelihood of confusing or putting off newbies.

At least those are generally linked, though.