Hi, <div><br></div><div>During the session, someone called it &quot;the side rail&quot;.</div><div><br></div><div>Pros: It&#39;s directionality-agnostic, and can refer both to layout and &quot;side content&quot;.</div><div>
<br></div><div>Con: It might be too similar to the existing &quot;sidebar&quot;, especially after it passes through the localization process.</div><div><br></div><div>A similar possibility would be &quot;the aside&quot;, with the same pros, not the con, and the added consistency with the HTML5 tag.<br>
<br>On Friday, August 8, 2014, Jared Zimmerman &lt;<a href="mailto:jzimmerman@wikimedia.org">jzimmerman@wikimedia.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="auto"><div>I think your right about the rail but let&#39;s not call it something so utilitarian as tools. Too boring. Also the content translation rail is based on the same concept that the design team arrived at a while back. So it&#39;s just a pattern we&#39;re all using. <br>
<br>Sent while mobile</div><div><br>On Aug 8, 2014, at 6:20 PM, Amir E. Aharoni &lt;<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,&#39;cvml&#39;,&#39;amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il&#39;);" target="_blank">amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="rtl"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<br clear="all"></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">This is a follow-up to Brandon&#39;s Wikimania talk about Winter.</div><div dir="ltr"><br>
</div><div dir="ltr">Winter has an important concept of &quot;the right rail&quot;. I like the &quot;rail&quot; part of the name, because it&#39;s a nice departure from &quot;bar&quot;, but the &quot;right&quot; part is wrong for several reasons:</div>


<div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">1. It&#39;s &quot;left&quot; in Arabic.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">2. It can be misunderstood as &quot;correct&quot;.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">


3. Most importantly, it doesn&#39;t say what is the rail for.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">What is it for, really? Data, tools, info, navigation, aids, knowledge, gallery? I don&#39;t have a strongly preferred name myself. &quot;Tools&quot; is pretty close, but an infobox is not exactly a tool. Other suggestion are welcome.</div>


<div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I should also mention that we have a pretty similar bar (rail? column?) in the ContentTranslation extension. It shows information about words, translations, and tools to control the machine translation. In the Language team we usually call it the &quot;tools column&quot;.</div>


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