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_vs._My
http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/4348/your-vs-my-in-user-interfaces
http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/social/core/yourvmy.html
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On Nov 2, 2012, at 11:05 AM, Steven Walling <swalling@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Bug: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41672
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> Docs and space for further discussion: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Personal_tools
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> 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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