On Sep 3, 2013, at 2:54 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On Sep 2, 2013, at 12:02 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).
> 
> 3rd choice:
> * Use SubWiki whenever we create new APIs
> * Keep existing APIs unchanged
> * This means that progressively our API will move from "Wiki" to "SubWiki".
> 
> This is maybe the more realistic solution, even if not perfect, WDYT?

Personally I'm fine to keep the "Wiki" terminology and thus have Add > Wiki.

Thanks
-Vincent

> Thanks
> -Vincent
> 
>> WDYT?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent
>> 
> 

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