https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41555
--- Comment #10 from Daniel Friesen <[email protected]> 2012-10-30 16:38:03 UTC --- (In reply to comment #6) > (In reply to comment #3) > > > "About" seems to generic, I'd expect it to be more > > > about the site itself than the software. > > > > +1 > > > So what? We also have Project:About linked from the footer, for that matter. > > Yes, there is Project:About, which is about the website - or the project - > you're on, and there would be Special:About, which would be technical data > about the software the project is running. > > Many of the special pages already contain purely technical - or even internal > - > data not really intended for readers, but only tech-savvy editors, e.g. > Special:MostLinked, Special:UnwatchedPages, Special:MostRevisions... I think > there is a clear distiction between them and regular pages. > > Special:Info would be fine, too, but IMO it could be confused with > action=info. The issue is we're swiping a generic name to point to meta information about MediaWiki instead of about the site's content. MostLinked, UnwatchedPages, MostRevisions, Recentchanges, etc... all of these other generic special pages are about the site and it's content not meta information on MediaWiki. Version was generic. But what else is version going to be about than the software. The word itself was very meta so it didn't have the issue. But "About". That just screams "About the wiki" "About the site"... That name just screams "I wrote an extension that presents the site's about inside of a special page" like someone might write a Special:Contact extension. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
