On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 11:07 PM, Thomas Langkamp <thomas.lassdiesonnerein@gmx.de> wrote:
make those contributions easier. OBS and OSEM are obvious examples,
I guess OSEM stands for Opensuse Event Manager. I would suggest to explain the acronym on the sites that use it like https://events.opensuse.org/
Or to not use a acronym at all. That would make the site more "accessible" to outsiders (Same for OBS and all acronyms) I did not find a way to change this myself. When I login to the above site I can only change my profile.
I'm glad to see someone else has recognized the stumbling block to a new member of the community that acronyms and other abbreviations represent. A step in the direction of lowering the cost of using short terms for more expensive typing exercises that are self-explanatory is the Hyper-Text Markup Language (HTML) <abbr> tag. It is supported by properly configured wikimedia sites as illustrated on https://en.opensuse.org/User:PatrickDGarvey/Abbreviations. Mousing over a tagged abbreviation pops up whatever is in the title parameter of the tag. As illustrated by the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures entry on the referenced page, the abbr tag can be used inside other markup. The title value need not be limited to a simple expansion of the abbreviation, either. I don't yet know what limit is normally placed on the length of the title value, but it can contain other markup under several circumstances (dependent upon the software interpreting the tag). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org