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Change "Create a new Object" to "Create a new function" in the function editor
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During a research study on generic types in the function editor we observed how participants noticed the "conflicting" information in the page header.

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One participant, thanks to their professional background assumed "[...] that an object is a type of function, or that a function is a type of object.”

In order to make sure that also people without a technical background or interest can understand what this page is about we suggest to change the pate title to "Create a new function".

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Event Timeline

Jdforrester-WMF changed the task status from Open to In Progress.Nov 13 2023, 3:26 PM
Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To triage to In Progress on the Abstract Wikipedia team board.

Change 973807 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester; author: Genoveva Galarza):

[mediawiki/extensions/WikiLambda@master] Set a more descriptive title for Special:CreateObject page

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/973807

Change 973807 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/WikiLambda@master] Set a more descriptive title for Special:CreateObject page

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/973807

Etonkovidova subscribed.

Checked in wmf.5: Special:CreateObject will switch to "Create a Function" and "Create a Type" when a user type &selects "Function" or "Type" in the type selection field.

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