Although the one I pasted is a good one too but very unrelated ;-)
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Jon Robson <jrobson(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Talking to Stephen Walling I suggested we should run a
half day / day
discussing our approach to copy text.
It would be great to get an expert in and open this to the wider
volunteer community as well. I'm sure there is a lot we can learn from
such a session and find some concrete ways of improving copy
throughout our products. We ran a similar session with Cooper [1] for
our approach to UX and this could be done in a similar way.
Would anyone be up for this? Does anyone know someone who could lead
such a session? Is anyone up for organising this?
[1]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoTmNU_5A0
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On 12/11/2012 04:35 PM, Munaf Assaf wrote:
>>
>> 1. Let's not overdo it (e.g. a search button shouldn't say "/Search
the
>> largest knowledge base on the planet/").
>
>
> It is more radical than this: use always the shortest strings possible.
> English tends to be pretty efficient in computer UIs but many other
> languages will struggle with longer words, more articles, prepositions, etc.
>
> Two obvious real examples I found yesterday by using Mobile Beta in Catalan:
>
> "Mobile settings" is better than "Mobile site settings"
>
http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Support/About_MediaWiki:Mobile-fronten…
>
> "Save" is better than "Save settings"
>
http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Support/About_MediaWiki:Mobile-fronten…
>
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