[Foundation-l] Britain or Ukraine? What UK stands for in Wikimedia jargon

[Ray Saintonge]

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.

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