[WikiEN-l] Renaming "Flagged Protections"

AGK wikiagk at googlemail.com
Fri May 21 22:57:14 UTC 2010


On 21 May 2010 22:38, Rob Lanphier <robla at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> It turns out that filters out quite a few names (including "Flagged
> Protection" among other things). Here's the alternatives that made the cut:
>
>   - "Pending Revisions" - this name is very consistent with what everyone
>   will see in many parts of the user interface, and what it will be used for
>   (i.e. providing a queue of pending revisions)
>   - "Double Check" - this was a late entrant, but has the distinct
>   advantage of clearly communicating what we envision this feature will be
>   used for (i.e. enforcing a double check from a very broad community).

'Pending revisions' would be better named something like 'Pending
edits'. Not all our readers would understand what a "revision" is, but
the concept of "edit" is universal—and complements "Wikipedia: The
Free Encyclopedia that anyone can *edit*" perfectly.

AGK



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