Community input is needed on a good name for two new (additional) fields that will be added to Commons file pages: 'captions' and 'descriptions' (both need to be named differently!).
Preferably, we know about the community's preference right after the Christmas / New Year holiday period - the team can then quickly continue its work, implementing the 'new' names.
A bit more background from @Ramsey-WMF:
The Structured Commons team is initially introducing two multilingual freeform text fields:
The "Caption" term is just a temporary working name. There is a need to select better names for the above data entities to avoid confusion with Wikidata or MediaWiki entities with the same name. Community input on this is desired.
Both of the above entities will be indexed for Search.
The Caption will be part of the initial Structured Commons feature release in Summer 2018. The release of Structured multilingual Descriptions depends on how quickly other items can be completed.
I'm preparing an input page for this, which will be mentioned in T179328: Structured Commons newsletter - Nov-Dec 2017 edition.
I'm totally missing WHY these need to be named different.., they seem to have similar purposes to the wikidata terminology. From a frontend perspective, naming them different only increases confusion to me.
Can this reason for difference be documented in the input page ?
Discussion is still ongoing at this moment; needs to be summarized and acted upon this month. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Feedback_requests/Renaming_%27captions%27_and_%27descriptions%27
A summary and response has been provided: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Feedback_requests/Renaming_%27captions%27_and_%27descriptions%27
The team would like to thank everyone who chimed in, and will provide an update this quarter on next steps and recommendations.