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

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2008/12/9 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
> 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.
>

I've got to admit I'm a bit disappointed that [[WP:SNAFU]] doesn't go anywhere.

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