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[Will Kemp]

I'm not sure i've been around long enough to express an opinion on this, 
but i'm going to anyway! ;-)

I can't see that having a jargon name for this particular category is 
likely to be a problem. No non-tech people are ever likely to need to 
use it.

As i understand it, the only real purpose of this category is to be able 
to identify all the pages that are linked to in the WP software or 
accompanying files - and the only people it's likely to be of interest 
to are WP developers and codex maintainers.

As a category it has no other significance and therefore giving it an 
apparently useful name might just lead people down a path that's of no 
use to them.



On 07/09/2009 03:45 PM, Lorelle VanFossen wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> I know we can do better, using the categories as guides and navigation
> for people of all levels.
>
> 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?
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Lorelle
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Michael E. Hancock
> <justmichaelh at gmail.com <mailto:justmichaelh at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lorelle VanFossen"
>     <lorellevan at gmail.com <mailto:lorellevan at gmail.com>>
>
>         What do you recommend that is more search and keyword specific?
>
>
>     "UI Link" hasn't bothered me since I created it three years ago.
>
>     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
>     http://codex.wordpress.org/Category:UI_Link
>
>
>
>     MichaelH
>
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