One of the problems we all face is when jargon becomes so familiar, we lose sight of how it impacts others. I taught a two day workshop on blogging and social media last week for a group of scientists and researchers working for the government. I work very hard to use words familiar to most people. At the end of the first day, after completing a section on using WordPress and fighting comment spam and copyright infringement, I laughed and cringed equally when two people agreed that I used more jargon and buzz words than they did in their positions - and they are KNOWN for their jargon and buzz words. <br>
<br>I assumed that blog talk had been around long enough people were now familiar with twitter, tweet, splog, scraper, spammer, and so on. They weren't. <br><br>Few people in the real day to day world know what UI is, and this is a prime example of the need for clarity in a category name. If it were "WordPress Interface" or "WordPress Functionality" or "How to Use WordPress" people who don't speak geek or blog would understand and click. But how many understand what UI Links mean? And what are "User Interface Links" anyway? A collection of links to pages dealing with the interface of WordPress? Shjpuld we have a category to name a group of links?<br>
<br>I know we can do better, using the categories as guides and navigation for people of all levels.<br><br>So if we keep this category, what would be a more appropriate name? Or should we get rid of it and assign these articles to more appropriate categories? <br>
<br>This is not to pick on anyone naming a category, it's to clean things up so we move towards a better reptuation for the WordPress Codex to be more helpful than confusing, a long time goal of mine. <br><br>Thanks!<br>
<br>Lorelle<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Michael E. Hancock <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:justmichaelh@gmail.com">justmichaelh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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What do you recommend that is more search and keyword specific?<br>
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"UI Link" hasn't bothered me since I created it three years ago.<br>
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For those that didn't notice, the description of each Category, if there is one, is at the top of each Category's page. For example <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Category:UI_Link" target="_blank">http://codex.wordpress.org/Category:UI_Link</a><div>
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