[Foundation-l] Renaming "Flagged Protections" to "Pending Changes"

[Rob Lanphier]

Hi everyone,

After much debate, we've settled on a name for the English Wikipedia
implementation of FlaggedRevs:  "Pending Changes".  This is a slight
variation on one of the finalists ("Pending Revisions") which has the
benefit of using the less jargony term "changes" instead of "revisions".
 The MediaWiki extension will continue to be named "FlaggedRevs", but the
greatly simplified subset of functionality that editors and readers on
en.wikipedia.org will see will be referred to as "Pending Changes" in the
user interface, help documentation, and other places that we'll talk about
this feature for non-developers working on English Wikipedia.

Thanks everyone for weighing in!  We'll be updating the message strings on
flaggedrevs.labs to reflect the new name:
http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Message_updates

Rob

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Rob Lanphier <robla at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> It looks like the discussion on the name is dying down, so I'd like to
> summarize what I think we've heard here:
> 1.  There's no clear favorite out there.  In addition to the two ideas we
> put forward ("Pending Revisions" and "Double Check"), there's been quite a
> bit of discussion around alternatives, for example:  "Revision Review" and
> "Pending Edits".
> 2.  There's are still some that aren't comfortable changing the name away
> from "Flagged Protection", but that doesn't appear to be a widely held view.
> 3.  Some people like "Double Check", but some people dislike it a lot.  The
> people who like it seem to be comfortable with the colloquial use of it,
> whereas the people that dislike it don't like the lack of precision and the
> possible confusion created by the use of the word "double".
> 4.  "Pending Revisions" seems to be something most people would settle for.
>  It's probably not the hands down favorite of too many people, but it
> doesn't seem to provoke the same dislike that "Double Check" does.
> 5.  "Pending Edits" is a simplification of "Pending Revisions" that seems
> to have some support, as it replaces the jargony "Revision" with the easier
> "Edits"
> 6.  "Hyperion Frobnosticating Endoswitch" seems to have gathered a cult
> following.  Yes, we have a sense of humor.  No, we're not going there.  :-)
>
> A little background as to where we're at.  "Double Check" had an
> enthusiastic following at the WMF office, but we're not inclined to push
> that one if it's going to be a fight (it's far from the unanimous choice at
> WMF anyway).  "Revision Review" seems to be heading a bit too far into
> jargon land for our comfort.  "Pending Revisions" is the compromise that
> seems to stand up to scrutiny.  A variation such as "Pending Edits" or
> "Pending Changes" also seems acceptable to us.
>
> That's where we stand now.  If you haven't spoken up yet, now is the time,
> since we're only a couple of days from making a final decision on this.
>  Please weigh in here:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Flagged_protection_and_patrolled_revisions/Terminology
>
> Thanks
> Rob
>
>