FIRST DRAFT OF DREAMWIDTH LEXICON

[ivorygates]

This exists because I am an enormous dork. An enormous *picky* dork. And I was typing along and got to the phrase: "Interactions Menu" and realized that if *I* didn't know what it was (I had to go ask) people suddenly showing up on the site with gun and camera in a week or so wouldn't have any bigger clue. So I figured maybe we could do a little lexicon (because Momma rho hates the word "dictionary") of the really confusing stuff. At the bottom, there's a question that doesn't really fit into the dictionary format and may need to become a FAQ, but it showed up in my "confusing terms" solicitation.



DREAMWIDTH LEXICON

Site-scheme pages: These are any pages on the site that you can't change the look of (aside from choosing a "Site Scheme" from the "Display" tab on the "My Account Settings" page). All of the Site scheme pages except "Lynx" display the Dreamwidth logo.

Interactions Menu: The strip on the left of the Profile Page with the icons for options like Modify, Access, Send Message, Track.

Archive: This displays past entries of a journal or community by year or by month.

Navigation Strip: This strip displays at the top of your journal or community page and can also display at the top of your Reading Page and the top of other journals and communities in your Circle if you make that selection from the "My Account Settings" page. This strip always provides hotlinks for "Home" "Post" "Reading Page" and "Inbox" — the other hotlinks it displays at the top center of the strip will change depending on what page of the site you are viewing. At the top right of the strip there is a box into which you can type a search term, a pulldown menu that allows you to choose "Interest", "Region", "Site & User", "FAQ", "Email", or "IM Info" as your search area. Beside the pulldown menu there's a button marked "Go".

RTE: This stands for "Rich Text Editor" which is something that lets you add formatting and pictures to text when you post an entry without knowing or using HTML tags. The RTE can only be used when posting an entry, not making a comment. The RTE can tend to be a little temperamental.

HTML editor: This is sometimes also called Plain Text, where you add <angle brackets> around your HTML tags (manually) when you post either an entry or a comment to change the look of your text.

Subscribe: Journals that you Subscribe to or that Subscribe to you are the journals of people who can read your Public/Unlocked/Open entries, and you can read theirs. Once you Subscribe to a Journal or a Community, it appears on your Reading List.

Access/Give Access/Have Access: When you give someone Access to your Journal, they can read your Private/Locked/Protected entries. They can't read entries you have further protected by using an Access Filter, if they are not on that Filter. You are not automatically able to read their Private/Locked/Protected entries in return: they must choose to give you Access to their Journal.

Reading Page: Your reading page is where you read the latest entries of your Circle. Your "Circle" is all the people, communities, and feeds with whom and with which you have a relationship of any kind.

OpenID: OpenID is a way for you to take the account you've created from another site that supports OpenID and use it to log in to Dreamwidth Studios with an OpenID account. There's more information on creating and using OpenID accounts on Dreamwidth in FAQ #62


HOW DO I...?

Say "may I subscribe to AND get access from you?" at the same time.

Comments

[florahart]

I hope comments from watchers are ok.

Unless this will change: subscribe (read on my reading page/list--you use list there, but the language on the site scheme says page) needs differentiating from notifications--the tracked items are still subscriptions (in the notifications tab, they're called subscriptions) which is not the same thing as the reading list, and also the language might carry over anyway.

Also might change, but if it's not going to: to view comments pages with site scheme rather than custom/layout design you uncheck a box that says something about the "app style." I think those app style words might ought to change anyway at some point because they're jargony, but until then, especially if they occur elsewhere, you might add that.

Is the interactions menu also the name of, on my layout, under the default icon, the new icons for change relationship, post, private message, and tell a friend? Your layout doesn't show these, but it's a module option ("basic journal info") in customization. It has similarity with the interactiness, but also is not the same. Does it have a name?

Zvi says CORE menu (and notes that's maybe not the real name), but in vertical site schemes (with stuff down the left rather than across the top), CORE would be a lot less apparent. Also, the Read section has Read: Reading page, Profile, Feeds, Tags, Inbox, and Comments, only some of which are things you read; I'm wondering if that word won't change anyway. I understand that the word Read there isn't what you can control, just if it's staying, it might need explaining, and if it's not, that might be relevant to what to call it

[zvi]

I know the reason for the acronymn isn't as clear on a vertical menu, but I thought that Core (as in central) menu, might still be an acceptable name in a non-acronym-y way. I mean, that's what I was thinking, if the docs team thinks of something clearer, then that's good. But I had given some thought to it.

[florahart]

Oh, sure, and I agree, it's good as a non-acronym. And I also agree it might be useful to give it a name if it doesn't have one.

[ivorygates]

I hope comments from watchers are ok.

Comments from watchers are great!

Unless this will change: subscribe (read on my reading page/list--you use list there, but the language on the site scheme says page) needs differentiating from notifications--the tracked items are still subscriptions (in the notifications tab, they're called subscriptions) which is not the same thing as the reading list, and also the language might carry over anyway.

So you're saying I need to add another entry about notifications, right? Because "Subscribe" and "Notify" are set as the terms to be used for now as far as I know.

Also might change, but if it's not going to: to view comments pages with site scheme rather than custom/layout design you uncheck a box that says something about the "app style." I think those app style words might ought to change anyway at some point because they're jargony, but until then, especially if they occur elsewhere, you might add that.

Oh cool! Where is this box? Once I see it, I can see about getting the wording changed: sometimes dork wording is ALL about making it short enough to fit on the button.

Is the interactions menu also the name of, on my layout, under the default icon, the new icons for change relationship, post, private message, and tell a friend? Your layout doesn't show these, but it's a module option ("basic journal info") in customization. It has similarity with the interactiness, but also is not the same. Does it have a name?

"Interactions Menu" is (AFAIK) only the name of the Menu that appears on your Profile Page, and what you're describing sounds a little like the Navigation Strip and a little like the Home page. So, um, I'm not quite sure what part of the site you're describing.

[florahart]

I know notifications is the language, and I like it; I was just saying IF that isn't scheduled to change by open beta, then it would require clarifying. Right now this has a notifications TAB, but the tracking part says

Subscription Tracking
Notify me in my DW Inbox when:

and also the bell iconlet when you hover says "http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/subscriptions/entry.bml?(thing to track)" as the URL at the bottom of my firefox window.

So, I totally get that things are changing rapidly and that some of them will still probably be being spackled and glued as the minutes tick down, so this is not at all a complaint about inconsistency or anything. Only what it says now, and that if it will still say that, then it could be a point of puzzlement of the type you are looking to identify, you know?

Re: app style:

The customization options, last section, presentation, says, "Show entry pages in my journal style rather than the app style [tickybox]"

Re: that little menu thing:

I don't have the nav strip turned on, so it's not that. Circled thing here:

This is a module in the customization options, modules tab. It says, for me:

Sidebar
Basic Journal Info

* Default Userpic
* Display Name
* Website

So I guess it's called Basic Journal Info in that context, but what it says there is pic/name/site, and what shows is that plus those little iconlets, so I wondered if that menu had a name. *shrug*

[ivorygates]

The confusion between notifications and subscriptions on "Your Account Page" has been fixed (by me, so if I've screwed it up, you know who to yell at until it's fixed). I'm not sure that the URL can be changed, since that's a code change, but I'll let the codewonks know.

The thing about "app style" doesn't show in all styles, and I think it only appears for Core 2. It doesn't seem to be something that can be changed in the Translation Editor (the thing that lets you edit most of the text that you see on what are referred to as "site-wide user-facing pages", meaning stuff that Dreamwidth has written for you to see), but I'm trying to find out which part of the code/software/flying monkeys is responsible for it to see if the wording can be changed.

Re: that little menu thing:

I don't have the nav strip turned on, so it's not that. Circled thing here:

The "little menu thing" does the same things that the "interactions menu" does, but since it's an option (everyone doesn't necessarily have it because it's dependent on what journal style you've chosen) and it doesn't appear on site-schemed pages, I don't think it has a name when it's in your journal.

[rho]

Changing URLs is something we're planning on doing in the future, but isn't a priority for now.

[florahart]

Oh but yes, also, an entry about notifications is good either way.