I agree with dropping the possessive. So long as it's implicit that the preferences are in fact the user's own preferences (which they must be since you cannot edit another user's preferences), the "my" is almost redundant.
--Tyler RomeoStevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015Major in Computer Science
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Brandon Harris <bharris@wikimedia.org> wrote:
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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