Hi Caty,

On Sep 2, 2013, at 1:44 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi devs,
>> 
>> We've recently discussed about renaming the notion of (sub)wiki from
>> "wiki" to "subwiki". We've discussed this in the context of integrating
>> creation of (sub)wikis by default in the platform and in XE. So the latest
>> discussion seemed to agree about:
>> * Calling the whole system a "Wiki"
>> * Calling each (sub)wikis a "SubWiki"
>> 
>> Now, I was working on updating the new model branch I have created to
>> align to this and to rename my Server class to a Wiki class and my existing
>> Wiki class to a SubWiki class…
>> 
>> I've realized that aligning our API on this is a huge task since we have
>> tons of APIs using the word "wiki". Just to cite 3:
>> * WikiReference (reference)
>> * WikiComponentScope.WIKI (wiki component)
>> * WikiDeletedEvent (bridge)
>> 
>> It's a bit everywhere and changing that seems too big a task IMO.
>> 
>> Thus we have 2 real choices IMO:
>> * Agree that the UI has a different wording than the API: SubWiki for the
>> UI and Wiki for the API
>> * Don't use subwiki in the UI and keep using Wiki in the UI and find
>> another word to represent the whole system (System/Portal/Wiki System/WMS =
>> Wiki Management System/Home/etc).
>> 
> 
> As already stated in the previous workspace mails, I prefer the wiki + home
> variant.

So in the Add menu we would have: 
Add > Wiki

Home cannot represent the whole system IMO. It could possibly represent the 
main wiki but I don't see how it could represent the whole system. Said 
differently I have a hard time imagining a Home.java class representing the 
whole system. Am I the only one?

Thanks
-Vincent
> 
> Thanks,
> Caty
> 
> 
>> 
>> WDYT?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent
>> 
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