I have been wondering the same thing. But, then, Drupal is my first CMS so maybe it's easier because it's my "first language" :) Michelle On 11/14/2007 11:32:10 AM, Richard Morse (remorse@partners.org) wrote:

[snipped long discussion of alternatives to "taxonomy", "vocabulary", "term"]

I'm sorry to interrupt, but I'm still not sure why there is a problem. Although I don't claim to be a master at using taxonomy.module, it was very obvious to me after the first two minutes of using Drupal what the terms meant. Why do we need to change them? The only thing I would change is the "categories" menu item back to "taxonomies". Is there any advantage to using less correct and more ambiguous terms to name things?

The entire topic of categorization is going to require some learning in order to make use of it. If there are default profiles, as has recently been discussed, which have already set up a default vocabulary as a "tagging" vocabulary, then the needs of the beginning blogger has been taken care of. Anything complex, users are going to need to read a bit, or play around for a while, to figure out -- so what is the extra minute to realize that a vocabulary is a collection of terms?

(If people can't stand the word "vocabulary", why not "dictionary", which is also a collection of terms?)

Confused, Ricky