https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70763
--- Comment #2 from Henning <[email protected]> --- Not sure, I understand the question. I rather wonder why there has not yet been a Wikibase glossary. Some terms tend to be really specific (and, sadly, sometimes a bit off their native meaning, e.g. "Rank", "Qualifier"). No one knows the developers intention to use a specific term better than the developers. Why create confusion by having people maintaining the Wikidata glossary guess about developer intentions? Not in any way arguing against a project specific Wikidata glossary, but a basic technical glossary should be maintained by the developers only, and be part of the actual software documentation. That glossary, off any project specifics, should be used to give hint to translators. Even more, for users interested in using the Wikibase software, an "external" glossary is just not as reliable because it most likely contains project specifics. Another use-case is standardizing wording and phrasing between developers in respect to the actual code and its interfaces. In addition, there are terms that are not visible in the UI but via APIs etc. - e.g.: "Fingerprint". Finally, maintaining a Wikibase glossary would, at least a tiny little bit, ease the process of changing a term/expression since the glossary may be used to reference back to deprecated terms and promote new terms. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
