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Improve wording on the Special:Mute page
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Description

Goal

According to a user report (T231577#5926270), the word "mute" is not easily translatable to other languages. We should change this and simplify the language on the special page. For reference, current special page looks like:

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Acceptance criteria

Make the following wording changes -

Current wordingNew wording
Please select your mute preferences for user ‪ABC‬TBD
Mute emails from this userTBD
Mute notifications from this userTBD

Should we change the name of the special page too? If so, to what?

Event Timeline

Niharika triaged this task as Medium priority.Feb 28 2020, 8:10 PM
Niharika created this task.

FYI: I chose to use similar wording to MediaWiki:Email-blacklist-label and MediaWiki:Echo-pref-notifications-blacklist for both checkboxes and translated ‘Mute’ as ‘Ignore’ in Russian. As the original reporter, I’d say the name of the special page can be kept as is unless other languages also experience some issues with this, but it might be a good idea to change wording of checkboxes to make it more similar with those options in preferences, especially because it might be easier to search for those options on the special page that way.

Ignore sounds like a good option. I was also thinking about Hide or Don't show:

  • Don't show me emails from this user
  • Don't show me notifications from this user

Ignore sounds like a good option. I was also thinking about Hide or Don't show:

  • Don't show me emails from this user
  • Don't show me notifications from this user

I like that. Between Don't show and Don't let this user...

Don't let this user email me.
Don't let this user send me notifications

what feels better?

CC @cwylo @SPoore