I disagree with Chris Johnson regarding his fear that we would be dumbing down Drupal if we made the terminology we use easier.<br><br>After all -- I don't believe anyone is suggesting an overhaul of taxonomy functionality in Drupal; there is simply a challenge (the latest from Chris Messina, but he certainly isn't the first) to name things in a simpler way.
<br><br>I'm not concerned that a simplification of the names we use for classification is going to have the affect of hiding the sophistication of how Drupal taxonomy works. <br><br>I'm fine with having someone go to a help page because they've heard there is more to Drupal categorization than meets the eye and they desire to learn/do more. That scenario is way better than hordes of people running to the handbook just trying to figure out how to do the basics --but can't-- in part because the terminology has so confused them.
<br><br>This is my vote:<br><br>taxonomy (the module name)--> categories<br>vocabulary --> category<br>term --> category_item (sometimes called a "tag")<br><br>Shai<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 11/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Karen Stevenson</b> <<a href="mailto:karen@elderweb.com">karen@elderweb.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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I think one simple change would make a world of difference without 'dumbing' anything down. As was mentioned before, the most confusing thing is the word 'vocabulary' since it's not obvious, even if you know figure out that taxonomy is way of categorizing things, what exactly a vocabulary is. So just change vocabulary to either 'category type' or 'category group', then we have a much more clear breakdown of:
<br><br>taxonomy -> categories<br>vocabulary -> category type (or category group)<br>term -> category (or term)<br><br>Karen<br><br></div><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>