Page MenuHomePhabricator

Rename English Wikipedia's User: namespace to Editor:
Closed, DeclinedPublic

Details

Reference
bz16973

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 10:28 PM
bzimport set Reference to bz16973.
bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

Adding shell keyword. BTW: This proposal does not look like a successfully straw poll from the English speaking community.

Wiki.Melancholie wrote:

I would support this, as "User" is equally misleading as "Image" (bug 44) was!
A so called 'user' not just 'uses' a Wiki, he/she 'edits' it ;-)
But the poll really seems to be a stand-off (tie).

(In reply to comment #2)

I would support this, as "User" is equally misleading as "Image" (bug 44) was!
A so called 'user' not just 'uses' a Wiki, he/she 'edits' it ;-)
But the poll really seems to be a stand-off (tie).

But not all users edit content so they are not editors.

I don't see consensus for this at en.wiki.

matthew.britton wrote:

Bugzilla is not a mechanism for sidestepping the usual decision making processes, tedious though they may be. Making a request here should be the very last part of the process. This does not currently have the support of the community; re-open in the event that it ever does.