[development] Early Drupal 6 review from Chris Messina

[Chris Johnson]

I think Hans Salvisberg has a decent suggestion in calling taxonomy,
classification.

But I worry about Shai Gluskin's suggestions, below.

Is a forum or forum container a category_item?  Is a permission a
category_item?  All of those things are terms, in the forum module and
the taxonomy_access module, respectively.

I'm all for making Drupal easier to use.  But I'm not in favor of
confusing Drupal's capabilities.


On Nov 12, 2007 12:04 AM, Shai Gluskin  wrote:
> I disagree with Chris Johnson regarding his fear that we would be dumbing
> down Drupal if we made the terminology we use easier.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> This is my vote:
>
> taxonomy (the module name)--> categories
> vocabulary --> category
> term --> category_item (sometimes called a "tag")
>
> Shai
>
>
>
>  On 11/11/07, Karen Stevenson <karen at elderweb.com> wrote:
> >
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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:
> >
> > taxonomy -> categories
> > vocabulary  -> category type (or category group)
> > term -> category (or term)
> >
> > Karen
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