Woot/Talk

Would it be appropiate to briefly discuss the creation/munging of words by these groups of people in a subsection of their respective pages? It is a valid part of script kiddie / hacker / cracker culture, and those three do deserve articles, IMO. (A real article, mind you, not just a quick definition and example of what makes them distinct from the other classes.) I feel somewhat responsible for this as I cleaned up the definition and moved it from W00t to Woot. --Colin dellow, red-[handed|faced] newbie.

Well, if something is actually a piece of jargon, which is important to understanding some phenomenon about which we definitely want have encyclopedia articles (hacker culture, for example), I can see that. I doubt the word "woot" is a piece of jargon that is important to understanding hacker culture, though. Or, if you think it is, then, to be consistent, you should say that all expressions should be included in the encyclopedia, since they are certainly important to understanding some culture (language is an essential part of culture). Please, anyway, don't be afraid of making mistakes. Well, not too afraid. :-) A few mistakes don't matter, because they can be easily fixed. --LMS

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Among the things that Wikipedia is not is a usage guide. Much less is it a usage guide for teenage slang--allowing that is to permit Wikipedia to degenerate into something resembling H2G2 and Everything2, which, as Zeus is my witness, I will never allow to happen. If you want to write entries about that, please start a dictionary wiki. We still don't know why no one has started one.

Content of original article is below. --LMS

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An exclamation of agreement and/or happiness. Usually used by a younger crowd, script kiddies and people who play EverQuest?. Sometimes used to denote victory.

This word originates from a mangling of the interjective Woo (which itself came from Whew). Its popularity began to rise with the prominence of online multiplayer games--in particular, online role-playing games such as EverQuest?. This is probably as a result of the phenomenon of online communication morphing words to create strong statements that are easy to type. See also -- grok, blorf?, editors, feel free to add some other new-age jargon that have interesting roots

W00t is the lamer? version of woot. In the language of the lamers, certain letters are replaced with numerals or mathematical symbols to create an elitist alphabet. W00+ is also a lamer variation of woot.