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(#794) Add Jargon Buster page #795

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Description Of Changes

Adds the start of a Jargon Buster page.

Motivation and Context

Our documentation uses jargon and acronyms that we need to bust!

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  • Minor documentation fix (typos etc.).
  • Major documentation change (refactoring, reformatting or adding documentation to existing page).
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Fixes #794

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pauby commented Jul 21, 2023

@gep13 @AdmiringWorm @vexx32 @corbob @st3phhays @Windos @ryanrichter94 @imm0rtalsupp0rt @JPRuskin I've tagged you all in this to review and suggest additions.

Note that this is not in any way complete. I want to get the obvious ones in here and we can update as we go along. Let me know of any, and their definitions and we can add them.

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I'm not sure how I feel about using the term "jargon" in the title and the url. I'm thinking for people searching for it, what might they look for? At the very least, we should possibly include the term glossary somewhere.

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pauby commented Jul 21, 2023

I don't feel the word glossary is useful here. A glossary, to me, is a place where I can go and look up all word I don't know that are in the document I'm reading. This is only a page listing jargon and acronyms. It's not a glossary about what a network card is, or a terminal etc.

I feel that jargon buster (which is a commonly used phrase and many documents, technical and not, use them) is a good description of what this is.

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learning-resources/index.md is already order level 60. Assuming we want this before "More Learning Resources" we should probably set this to 55.

### N

* **NuGet**. Refers to the tool and framework used to install [NuGet packages](https://nuget.org). The Chocolatey packaging framework is based on the NuGet packaging framework.
* **nupkg**. A Chocolatey package file has the extension `nupkg` and this is a shorthand term referring to the package file.
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If nupkg is here, nuspec would probably also be worthwhile to have.

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gep13 commented Jul 24, 2023

It has been mentioned elsewhere, but capturing here as well, can we add CLE to the list?

Also, do we want the reciprocal entry for package? In the nupkg entry, we mention that this is a Chocolatey package, so in the package entry, we would mention that this is a file that ends with *.nupkg.

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xref: jargon-buster
Title: Jargon Buster
Description: A reference guide on the jargon and acronyms used in our documentation.
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Description: A reference guide on the jargon and acronyms used in our documentation.
Description: A reference guide on the jargon and acronyms used in our documentation

None of our other Descriptions contain a . at the end. I noticed that there was an inconsistency in this area recently, and I made them the same. The overwhelming majority of our pages didn't have a ..

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Couple minor grammatical nits that read a bit funny to me, but otherwise I think this looks good so far :3


While a goal for our documentation is clarity we recognize that as engineers and technical users of our software, we speak and write in a manner that may not always be as clear to others as we would like.

One of our goals for writing documentation, is clarity. As we update our documentation we strive to bring clarity to it. But this is a work in-progress. We recognize that jargon and acronyms can cause confusion, misunderstanding and act as a barrier for those who are getting started with our software.
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One of our goals for writing documentation, is clarity. As we update our documentation we strive to bring clarity to it. But this is a work in-progress. We recognize that jargon and acronyms can cause confusion, misunderstanding and act as a barrier for those who are getting started with our software.
One of our goals for writing documentation, is clarity. As we update our documentation we strive to bring clarity to it, but this is a work in-progress. We recognize that jargon and acronyms can cause confusion, misunderstanding and act as a barrier for those who are getting started with our software.

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The end of the sentence there was deliberate. As it emphasises the But in the next sentence.

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As far as I'm aware most style guides would say you shouldn't splice a sentence like that. Personally I don't think it helps the clarity for the reader, but it's not a huge issue either. 🤷‍♀️

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If you can point me to a style guide, I'm happy to review it. I use LanguageTool (as I said) so I tend to rely on that as the source of truth.

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