Might help to sum up what exactly it does or how it's used (2-4 bullet points) so that people trying to pick a name to match its features but haven't followed the lengthy debate, are up to date on it.
FT2 On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Rob Lanphier <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > As William alluded to, a bunch of us have been studying the user interface > for Flagged Protections and figuring out how to make it more intuitive. > > In trying to solve the user interface problems as well as generally > figuring > out how we're going to talk about this feature to the world at large, it > became clear that the name "Flagged Protections" doesn't adequately > describe > the technology as it looks to readers and editors. It's a tough name to > work > with. This iteration of the technology is very different from the German > implementation, and there's no "flagging" in the proposed configuration. > Additionally, "protection" in our world implies "no editing" whereas this > feature actually opens up pages currently protected so that everyone can > edit. > > So, we would like to make a change to the name of the "Flagged Protections" > feature prior to deploying it to en.wikipedia.org. Under the hood, we > would > still be using the "FlaggedRevs" extension (no change there), but the name > that we talk about in the user-visible portions of the site and > documentation would be something new. > > Here were some criteria we're using to find a name: > > - Must not introduce obsolete terminology (e.g. there's no "flagging" in > our proposed deployment) > - Terminology should be consistent with terms we want to use in the user > interface > - Must not make too strong of a statement of quality/consensus or terms > that make us out as publishers approving content from the mountaintop > - Should not imply we're creating an elite new classes of users > - Should not convey a strong sense of restriction. The feature, as > proposed for the trial [1], is less restrictive than semi-protection > - Should not be too geeky/too technical/too jargony > - Should not be too slick/too cutesy. We're not doing this in the name of > creating glossy brochures with pictures of a conference room full of > people > in formal business attire nodding with approval at a projection of a pie > chart - we just want a name that won't be confusing. > > It turns out that filters out quite a few names (including "Flagged > Protection" among other things). Here's the alternatives that made the cut: > > - "Pending Revisions" - this name is very consistent with what everyone > will see in many parts of the user interface, and what it will be used > for > (i.e. providing a queue of pending revisions) > - "Double Check" - this was a late entrant, but has the distinct > advantage of clearly communicating what we envision this feature will be > used for (i.e. enforcing a double check from a very broad community). > > A protracted debate on the name will likely delay the eventual launch on > the > feature, so we're hoping we can have a quick, respectful discussion on the > merits of the different proposals so that we can make the change quickly > and > move on. We really need to have a name fully locked down no later than > Friday, May 28. Please let us know your thoughts here: > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Flagged_protection_and_patrolled_revisions/Terminology > > We're in the process of working on a lot of terminology tweaks in the user > interface in anticipation of the launch. If you're interested in that > detail > work, I'll post more information about that on wikitech-l (hopefully by > end-of-day Monday), as well as on the talk page above. > > Rob > > [1] - See the proposed configuration for trial phase: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Flagged_protection_and_patrolled_revisions/Trial > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
