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[Discuss] Terms used in the Wiki labels interface
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Description

Story: As a user I prefer if an interface uses terms I am familiar with and which I associate with the correct things (even though no user would write it that way…)

Concern: Several terms that are used in the labeling interface may be unusual for newcomers to the system.

Terms

  • "Campaign": A collection of tasks with a common theme (usually related to a specific initiative) that require user judgement.
    • Concerns: I personally would associate campaign with political or advertisement campaigns. For a user those may be "tasks", "goals", "change sets" or something like this.
  • "Workset": A small batch of tasks for a user to work on. Worksets are drawn from incomplete tasks in a campaign.
    • Concerns:
  • "Task": A unit of work. Usually an item of some sort (page, revision, user, etc.). A user would be asked to apply some sort of judgement to it in the form of a "label". Tasks can require more than one "label".
    • Concerns:
  • "Label": A structured judgement from a user. A label can take nearly any form representable as JSON. Plain text, numerical, categorical, etc.
    • Concerns: In the current system, users select sort changes into predefined categories (which you can also do by labeling, but I assume the association is not that obvious). Is "categorization" better?

Event Timeline

Not all "labeling" campaigns are categorization. Labeling is a more general term.

Not all tasks are "changes". "Tasks" is already used to describe the items in a campaign.

While this is an open area for critique, this task seems poorly defined and I'm not sure what to do with it. Maybe we can make the goal of this task to [Discuss] terms?

Halfak renamed this task from User facing terms may be confusing to [Discuss] Terms used in the Wiki labels interface.Jun 6 2017, 9:22 PM
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I've added some stuff to the description. Maybe @Jan_Dittrich can review that and my response and comment again.

Not all…

OK, I only inferred from what I could see in the UI now. It makes sense, if there are other kinds of things, it makes sense.

We could close the task for now. The question about "campaign", remains for me, but that can now possibly discussed in a more specific ticket about exactly this?

I'm OK with adjusting this task until we get it right.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/campaign

  • (n) a connected series of operations designed to bring about a particular result

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/campaign

  • (n) a series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal

a connected series of operations designed to bring about a particular result

If this is what you assume the "normal" speaker has in mind, I am fine. I assumed that the term is connected mainly to political and marketing campaigns.

Hmm. I'm not sure what you are getting at here. It is the definition of the word. We settled on it because it seemed to describe things at the right level of specificity. I don't see any suggestions for better terms. Is it common to stop using words even though the word is appropriate by all technical measures?

Maybe there's a more common term in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing that we can draw from.

I don't see any suggestions for better term

I sadly did not find any better alternatives except general ones like "tasks", "actions", "operations" etc.

…word is appropriate by all technical measures?

We can continue to use it – my concerns were mainly if user have the same thing in mind like we do when they read the word. My intention was not to communicate that the word is "bad" or should not be used, it was more a question if we (though it being OK by its definition) could find one that may not carry the associations of political or marketing campagins (where "campagin" is used frequently ). I was not able to find such a word and I don't assume the association does much harm – so it is no problem to continue using "campaigns"