[WikiEN-l] the term 'USER'

[Axel Boldt]

I never thought about it before, but I have to agree that "user" is not
a good description of what we are; in some software circles it also has
a negative connotation as in "just a user, what does he know". 

Somebody who runs Linux is a user, somebody who writes code for Linux
is a contributor. Somebody who comes to Wikipedia in order to get some
information is a user, somebody who writes and edits articles is a
contributor. 

While we probably all qualify as users in the above sense, I think we
are better described as "contributors" and I would favor a change. For
a smooth transition, the web server could simply redirect /wiki/user:*
to /wiki/contributor:*

Axel


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