I would kill the whole "my" thing with fire if possible. It's not even the
"right" way to indicate possessiveness (it implies an asocial mental mode).
Here's some fun reading:
http://www.designingsocialinterfaces.com/patterns.wiki/index.php?title=Your…
http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/4348/your-vs-my-in-user-interfaces
http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/social/core/yourvmy.html
On Nov 2, 2012, at 11:05 AM, Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Bug:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41672
Docs and space for further discussion:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Personal_tools
This is yet another question which begs for a copy guide to be filled out at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Design/Writing_style. I really love
the "copy tone" and "copy rules" lists at
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/styleguide/ for a relevant example of what we might shoot
for.
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