I'm not sure i've been around long enough to express an opinion on this,
but i'm going to anyway! ;-)
I can't see that having a jargon name for this particular category is
likely to be a problem. No non-tech people are ever likely to need to
use it.
As i understand it, the only real purpose of this category is to be able
to identify all the pages that are linked to in the WP software or
accompanying files - and the only people it's likely to be of interest
to are WP developers and codex maintainers.
As a category it has no other significance and therefore giving it an
apparently useful name might just lead people down a path that's of no
use to them.
On 07/09/2009 03:45 PM, Lorelle VanFossen wrote:
One of the problems we all face is when jargon becomes so familiar, we
lose sight of how it impacts others. I taught a two day workshop on
blogging and social media last week for a group of scientists and
researchers working for the government. I work very hard to use words
familiar to most people. At the end of the first day, after completing a
section on using WordPress and fighting comment spam and copyright
infringement, I laughed and cringed equally when two people agreed that
I used more jargon and buzz words than they did in their positions - and
they are KNOWN for their jargon and buzz words.
I assumed that blog talk had been around long enough people were now
familiar with twitter, tweet, splog, scraper, spammer, and so on. They
weren't.
Few people in the real day to day world know what UI is, and this is a
prime example of the need for clarity in a category name. If it were
"WordPress Interface" or "WordPress Functionality" or "How to Use
WordPress" people who don't speak geek or blog would understand and
click. But how many understand what UI Links mean? And what are "User
Interface Links" anyway? A collection of links to pages dealing with the
interface of WordPress? Shjpuld we have a category to name a group of links?
I know we can do better, using the categories as guides and navigation
for people of all levels.
So if we keep this category, what would be a more appropriate name? Or
should we get rid of it and assign these articles to more appropriate
categories?
This is not to pick on anyone naming a category, it's to clean things up
so we move towards a better reptuation for the WordPress Codex to be
more helpful than confusing, a long time goal of mine.
Thanks!
Lorelle
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Michael E. Hancock
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lorelle VanFossen"
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
What do you recommend that is more search and keyword specific?
"UI Link" hasn't bothered me since I created it three years ago.
For those that didn't notice, the description of each Category, if
there is one, is at the top of each Category's page. For example
http://codex.wordpress.org/Category:UI_Link
MichaelH
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