On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Dries Buytaert wrote:
On 29 Sep 2005, at 09:21, Karoly Negyesi wrote:
"free tagging" has 13,300 results while folksonomy has 1,220,000 results according to googlefight. It's not that "free tagging" is bad, it's just that we are creating another barrier. Look at taxonomy vs. categories... it's still more accessible to call it "categories" while the savvy developer know that "Drupal categories" is another name for a rose called "taxonomy". I am ready to admit that "free tagging" is not folksonomy, but again, taxonomy vs. categories. You can say that taxonomy vs. categories is the camel nose in the tent. I will disagree.
Today, I attended a presentation on 'usability in content management systems'. According to their research, one of the key problems is the use of technical jargon and system details/internals being exposed to the user. According to them, the answer to the following question should be 'yes':
Does the system use natural, non-technical language?
I tend to agree, and don't regret changing 'taxonomy' to 'categories'. Furthermore, I'm all for renaming 'path alias' to 'custom URL'. I'll continue to commit patches that eliminate technical jargon from Drupal.
The problem here is: Who is the user? Is it the admin of a site? Or is it the user registering on a site. For that latter kind of user I do agree with you, for admins I do not. Luckily all my own sites are in German, so I don't _really_ care. Cheers, Gerhard