Hello, I wanna propose change of all occurrences of "anonymous user(s)", "anonym(s)" and similar terms to "unregistered user(s)", "unregistered(s)" in MediaWiki. The main argument is that the "anonymous" is misleading, as a logged-in user can have significantly more anonymity than an unregistered one. The registration itself doesn't mean that the user's identity is revealed, so it seems better to use the term "unregistered". And I think it's more understandable for newcomers. It can be encouraging for vandals if the system tells them that they are anonymous, although their privacy protection is significantly lower than for registered users.
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- Duplicates Merged Here
- T282493: Rename anonymous to unregistered
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This task doesn't strike me as actionable unless it points to specific places where there are "anonymous" users rather than "unregistered" users. Otherwise, it risks being an issue that the communities should solve rather than the MediaWiki developers.
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$:acko\> pwd
/home/acko/coding/wikimedia/git/mediawiki-core/languages/i18n
$:acko\> grep -r "nonym" en.json
"tog-watchlisthideanons": "Hide edits by anonymous users from the watchlist",
"anontalkpagetext": "----\n<em>This is the discussion page for an anonymous user who has not created an account yet, or who does not use it.</em>\nWe therefore have to use the numerical IP address to identify them.\nSuch an IP address can be shared by several users.\nIf you are an anonymous user and feel that irrelevant comments have been directed at you, please [[Special:CreateAccount|create an account]] or [[Special:UserLogin|log in]] to avoid future confusion with other anonymous users.",
"token_suffix_mismatch": "<strong>Your edit has been rejected because your client mangled the punctuation characters in the edit token.</strong>\nThe edit has been rejected to prevent corruption of the page text.\nThis sometimes happens when you are using a buggy web-based anonymous proxy service.",
"rcshowhideanons": "$1 anonymous users",
"wlshowhideanons": "anonymous users",
"enotif_anon_editor": "anonymous user $1",
"block-log-flags-anononly": "anonymous users only",
"softblockrangesreason": "Anonymous contributions are not allowed from your IP address ($1). Please log in.",
"anonymous": "Anonymous {{PLURAL:$1|user|users}} of {{SITENAME}}",
"anonuser": "{{SITENAME}} anonymous user $1",
"anonusers": "{{SITENAME}} anonymous {{PLURAL:$2|user|users}} $1",
"log-action-filter-newusers-create": "Creation by anonymous user",