[development] Renaming "taxonomy" terminology? (was Re: Early Drupal 6 review from Chris Messina)

catch catch56 at googlemail.com
Wed Nov 14 19:21:07 UTC 2007


>
> Derek Wright wrote:
>
> Finally, I agree with the last few comments in this thread that the
> biggest usability problem was the (IMHO foolish) decision to say
> "taxonomy is too scary, let's inconsistently refer to it as
> 'categories' in some places in the UI".  That right there is the root
> of most of our trouble.  Renaming the menu item back to just
> "taxonomy" and removing places in the UI (other than help texts) that
> use this ambiguous terminology would be a big win.  I'd say "step
> forward", but it'd be a correction to our current regression. ;)
Here's an issue to do just that. http://drupal.org/node/192209


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