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. Ec _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
