Suggested by @stevenwalling at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Wkpq04dwu8xl04rg :
MediaWiki:Discussiontools-newtopic-placeholder-title says "Title", which could be confused with the page title. It should probably say "Topic" instead.
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Related Changes in Gerrit:
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clarify subject placeholder wording | mediawiki/extensions/DiscussionTools | master | +1 -1 |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T276497 Scale DiscussionTools to all projects | |||
| Open | None | T251207 [Epic] Scale DiscussionTools to all Wikipedias | |||
| Open | None | T233446 [Epic] New Discussion Tool | |||
| Resolved | None | T275256 Make New Topic Tool (desktop) available as opt-out feature at all wikis | |||
| Resolved | matmarex | T310392 [Config Change] Enable New Topic Tool as opt-out at Phase 4 wikis (desktop) | |||
| Resolved | Frostly | T297974 "Title" is unclear, and should probably say "Subject" or "Topic" instead |
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"Heading" would probably be appropriate as existing, widely-understood and used language.
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No, headings are for page contents / articles not discussion. It should be
subject or topic or something similar so newbies can understand.
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Change 802611 had a related patch set uploaded (by EpicPupper; author: EpicPupper):
[mediawiki/extensions/DiscussionTools@master] Clarify subject placeholder wording
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In T264220 we changed it from "Topic" to "Title", because we call the entire discussion sections "topics". I don't think anyone particularly liked "Title", I think we'd be okay with changing it to "Subject" as proposed. I'll ask the rest of the team.
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Changing the helper text to Subject from Title sounds like an improvement to me. Let's try it.
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Change 802611 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/DiscussionTools@master] Clarify subject placeholder wording