NEAR Wiki: Content Plan

Hi, @David_NEAR
I have been here since I entered the NEAR Venezuela Guild for the first time on December 10, 2021, I’m a “newbie” to NEAR protocol and his big bang!. :boom:

FYI, I have been soaking up many things in this NEARVerse, which interests myself as crypto enthusiasts. There are some things that understand well, but I still have doubts or thinking relatively like a newcomers (it’s lack of practice). For example, I know what the purpose of the DAO (= decentralized autonomous organization) now!. But initially I didn’t know what the acronym meant. I am not an expert in using the NEAR Forum (aka OWS). I wondered if there was a list of terms or glossary within OWS, or some other website, to know what many of these abbreviations mean that are scattered on the web (some from the crypto world which is a real hurdle for a newbie to crypto’s, or others from NEAR jargon). I couldn’t find anything inside the black hole, except two entries, when searching for the word “glossary”. However, this word does not appear in the text of the associated posts. :thinking:

As I am interested in creating written content, then I took the idea of working in the construction of a glossary of acronyms. And I was thinking of putting it together in a PDF to send it to Medium or via Twitter. Only for PDF, this looks like this proposal: [PROPOSAL] - Onboard Project. But, What I liked about this post, It is the focus of the problem we have in NEAR for the onboard of newbies that especially do not know anything about crypto:

Then accidentally, I found out that NEAR is building a Wiki. :heart_eyes: It is better than a PDF of hundreds of pages to read as a user manual. And we have to take advantage of access by phones. It is very uncomfortable to see a PDF from its minimal screen, just to find a term, although there is also Google, which serves. But, if someone opens his near Wallet and we recommend reading OWS, Discord, FAQ, etc. to understand more that means NEAR, we can tell to read the Wiki as well. They are going to learn from NEAR and the multiverse of the Crypto at once.

OK, this is wonderful and I am joining you in contributing for General section. Because I think that knowing the meaning of acronyms quickly helps me or other newbies, about what that is or to understand other posts in context. But you have to continue reading, practice is more important than theory. I remember asking @Jloc, the meaning of DM (aka, Direct message); I was confused, I thought it was Discord moderators. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

I suggest to you that we can add at the end of General sect.: List of acronyms (as a new subsection). This would be a list with several items of the form (for example):

aka = as known as
DAO = Decentralized Autonomous Organization
FYI = For your information
DeFI = Decentralized Finance
HTML = HyperText Markup Language
NEAR = NEAR protocol crypto
NFT = Non-fungible token
PDF = Portable Document File

The description or meaning of the acronym in some cases it may be a hyperlink to another site on the Wiki, for further information. It is the HTML utility. This opens up the possibility of reaching key things very quickly, especially for newbies in crypto, even more so in NEAR. So I would very much like to hear in the future, someone tell me that he entered the world of cryptoeconomics by starting with NEAR. Good to do it from a third generation protocol! :beers:

So count on me to help in the terms you express in this Content Plan. I already entered your telegram channel. If there is a reward for this, all the better. That is another incentive. :grinning:

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