WordPress Multisite/MU/Network naming is ambigious

[novasource]

What is the official term for when once WordPress instance hosts multiple blogs? WordPress Network? WordPress Multiuser? WordPress MU?

​http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network doesn't make this clear. "Network" appears in lower case in the first paragraph, but "Multisite" is in upper case (suggesting authority) but in parenthesis (de-suggesting authority). Yet in the WordPress app, the link is called Network Admin. And on this tracker, the component is Multisite.

I'm having trouble consistently communicating to users without knowing which words to use. I would appreciate more clarity in the documentation and consistency between the documentation, WordPress.org, and the product UI.

[nacin]

The feature, particularly in code, is called multisite. A network is a group of sites. So the network admin is for administering a network.

[ocean90]

From my standpoint:

Network admin is only the backend for the Super Admin.

Multisite is a network of sites/blogs.

So the official term should be WordPress Multisite (was WordPress MU for WordPress Multiuser). And with WordPress Multisite you can create a network, a network of sites.

See also the constants WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE and MULTSITE.

(I know nacin was faster)

[andrea_r]

Also, anything related to WordPress MU (in terms of terminology) is done. We're rapping knuckles in the forum over it. ;) It can make a difference when volunteers give answers.

And the codex page can be edited by anyone with a wordpress.org login. Feel free to tidy that up.

[ocean90]

See also ​http://andrewnacin.com/2010/03/25/terminology-nightmare-blogs-sites-networks/

I think it's clear enough.