[Foundation-l] Renaming "Flagged Protections"

AGK wikiagk at googlemail.com
Sat May 22 10:30:19 UTC 2010


On 22 May 2010 02:09, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> While that is true, making up names without any real thought is what
> has resulted in the mess we have now where most people have no idea
> what the differences are between Wikipedia, Wikimedia and MediaWiki,
> since the names are all so similar. I think taking a little bit of
> time to come up with a sensible name is a good idea.

Not to mention Wikia. But really, only those unfamiliar with Wikipedia
get confused between the three. And as this really is only a
background/editorial process, the name isn't _as_ significant.
Admittedly, it's new editors who are most likely to not figure out why
their edits haven't appeared yet ("I was told anybody could edit this
site. So why hasn't my improvement showing up? Do I need to refresh
the page? … Argh!!!"… rage quit; we lose an editor). But I don't know
if they're going to care which name we choose, so long as it's
understandable to the layman. YMMV.

AGK




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