[WikiEN-l] Citizendium to launch this week

[Mark Wagner]

On 3/25/07, Ron Ritzman <ritzman at gmail.com> wrote:
> This part of their policy is almost funny seeing how much we all just
> "love" WP:TLAs
>
> "No initialisms. The Policy pages of the Citizendium may not contain
> any three-letter "initialisms." For example, "IAR," "NOR," and "AFD"
> are three letter initialisms. These expressions are a considerable
> problem for new users who are unfamiliar with them. The first time a
> user introduces such an expression in a policy page, he/she will be
> warned and the expression removed. The second time a user repeats this
> offense, he will be banned for a suitable amount of time.?

I look forward to seeing what sort of private jargon they wind up
developing -- and if they realize that they've done so.  Initialisms
are the English Wikipedia's jargon.

-- 
Mark
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