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Unclear header for ORES options in Preferences
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99% of Wikipedia users have no idea what "ORES" means. Please use "Objective Revision Evaluation Service" or some other more descriptive header for the ORES preferences.

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Hey, do you mean in preferences or beta features part?
(Just to be sure)

In Recent Changes preferences (and just the header).

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I guess this really only matters once ORES is no longer a beta feature (since you have to activate ORES to see the header), but it's never too early to plan ahead :)

I honestly doubt people will understand what "Objective Revision Evaluation Service" is either.

I like the term "Revision scoring" as it implies what's being done. I don't think that expanding ORES' acronym is all that valuable.

Change 306685 had a related patch set uploaded (by Ladsgroup):
Change ORES header to "Revision scoring" in preferences

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/306685

Change 306685 merged by jenkins-bot:
Change ORES header to "Revision scoring" in preferences

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/306685