Talk:Glossary of Terms

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I'd like to see most product names removed from this list (eg Mambo, ModernBill, Moodle..) and only keep more generic terms (eg Accessibility, Ajax, Alias). Anyone looking for eg Mambo will still be able to find it with a search. --Twz 13:13, 28 May 2007 (EST)

I guess my main intention for listing every term, including product names etc, was because it made for a place for pretty much most of the wiki articles and a summary of what they mean. Possible these could be moved to a secondary article, Glossary of Terms does imply technical descriptions, possible another article List of third-party software. Removing these from the list also puts terms such as "100% uptime email" and other jumba services into a gray area... Aussiepete 13:56, 28 May 2007 (EST)

OK, I've changed the blurb to reflect this and have linked to a page - List of web applications. This page can list the programs etc there. Aussiepete

Another suggestion (are you sick of me yet?) - I don't think that file extensions should be in here; they have their own page at List of file formats or maybe a new page/redirect called File extensions. ACE, AI, AIFF, ASF, ASX, AVI, BMP, CFM, DOC, EPS, EXE, FLA, FLV, HTM, ICO (but add the word "icon"), JSP, M2V, M3U, MDB, MOV, PL, PSD, PSP, RA, RB, RM, RTF, SWF, WAV, WMA, WMV. On the other hand the following should be added to File extensions but also could be kept here as they are almost words: CSS, GIF, HTML, JAR, JPG/JPEG, JS, MP3, PDF, PNG, RAR, TAR, XML, ZIP. Am I making sense? This all sounds logical to me! --Twz 01:50, 16 June 2007 (EST)

Anyone? --Twz 10:26, 18 June 2007 (EST)

Another one I have no solid opinion on. My original intention for this article was to list all mentioned terms that are used whether file names, software applications, technical terms. Now that software has been stripped out, I guess the filenames already have a listing on list of file formats so can probably be removed. Even though it's doubling up, the reason was to have it all together in one spot, instead of 5 different areas. Maybe the Glossary could be split into topical lists instead of alphabetical - then it can say "file extensions, see main article", "software applications - see main article" etc. Aussiepete 08:43, 20 June 2007 (EST)

Contents 1 Error descriptions 2 Sub categorising 3 File formats 4 wiki policy

Error descriptions

discussion moved to Talk:Error pages (cPanel).

Sub categorising

Maybe instead of listing terms alphabetically (although I think useful), maybe a second list could be sorted topically (eg. Broadband, Hosting, Tech, Miscellaneous)?Aussiepete 23:53, 26 June 2007 (EST)

I don't like this idea. It would be more difficult to maintain, and some people might be looking for a meaning but don't know what category it belongs in. Aim low! (ie for the nOO8) --Twz 00:10, 27 June 2007 (EST)

Yep, I thought hat too but thought I'd table the idea :) Aussiepete 08:44, 27 June 2007 (EST)

File formats

I'd like to see PDF included here. Although it's technically a file format, PDF is often used like a word, and someone wanting to know the meaning might not know to look for it in List of file formats. Same goes for some others like JPEG, MP3, MPEG, TIFF, ZIP and maybe even JS, RAR, TAR/tarball --Twz 15:53, 27 June 2007 (EST)

I dod like to hav ethe list cover all grounds, but this was the decision to remove filenames etc. I don;t know, I think if you're going to put the filenames back, maybe the other ones should be back too... Aussiepete 15:56, 27 June 2007 (EST)

wiki policy

We should have a page (if there isn't on already) explaining exactly what the wiki is. Do we know? For example is it just about things related to Jumba services, anything to do with the internet, or anything to do with computers generally? If the latter, this pages could eventually contain thousands of entries! --Twz 19:20, 27 June 2007 (EST)

The Help:DummiesGuide_1 page mentions pages should be "related to Jumba services and web-based management" --Scott T 19:28, 27 June 2007 (EST)

This sort of direction or "policy" should be loosely considered an established as a basis for the wiki, otherwise you could add thousands of computer related articles not really relevant. I think the articles need to directly or indirectly be able to be justified based only on Jumba Services (ie. Hosting encompasses general internet terms, web design/development, broadband includes details about modems, speeds, and technical jargon). But this still isn't really defined as much as it could be. It has come up a number of times some of the articles I've set up with intention or ideas for what could be on them, that they are not entirely relevant. The main thing is if the content is useful to the Jumba community, then maybe it should be represented, even if it is a little left field. Aussiepete 19:52, 27 June 2007 (EST)

OK I had seen that on DummiesGuide_1 but forgot it was there --Twz 20:02, 27 June 2007 (EST)

This definition is purely my thoughts when the wiki was first started, it is completely open to redirection or discussion. Maybe we could move this discussion to WAG:Wiki standards or WAG:Wiki policies and start building a framework there. Aussiepete 20:07, 27 June 2007 (EST)

Good idea. I've thought of many little policy issues of the past few weeks (now mostly forgotten!) - be good to have somewhere to jot these down for discussion and eventual decision --Twz 20:30, 27 June 2007 (EST)