Date:         Tue, 1 May 2007 14:58:27 -0400
Reply-To:     "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
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From:         "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
Subject:      Re: OT: wikipedia or ...?
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> From: Don Henderson

> I agree that a category called FAQ seems inconsistent with
> the concept of the wiki. You are correct that is what the
> Sasopedia part of the site was intended to address.
>
> So I guess my question for Ron is what is the intent of this
> category called FAQ.

thanx Don, for chiming in on this.
I had a note2self to contact you about this.

Howard and Charles Patridge had both mentioned 'taxonomy'
as part of our todo list.

The reason I created the Quick Link: FAQ
is one word: idiolect

depending on which dictionary I have at hand,
my main interpretation of this word is:
'the speech of an individual,
considered as a linguistic pattern
unique among speakers of their language or dialect.'

Who are the audience for sasComm wikipedia?

If the old-timers are talking to themselves,
using, as I noted above the language of the in-crowd,
we are eventuall/essentially wasting our time
because new-comers do not know the language of either
* sas
* computer science
* (sas) user/programmer/statistician community

If we make the effort to speak to newcomers using commonly accepted
net-speak terms,
then this signals our intent to meet their needs.

Howard:
> Hmm. I thought that's what the SASopedia category was for.

My reason for putting FAQ in the Quick Links
is, hopefully, net-hip people will recognize that acronym
faster than our newly-minted word 'sasopedia'

Ron Fehd  the Wikipedia!
           or KaiZen!
           or macro maven  CDC Atlanta GA USA RJF2 at cdc dot gov