Terminology

[ivorygates]

A Question: why, after all the careful editing of the Translation Strings to change "maintainer" to "administrator" across all the community stuff (because we are differentiating between the "administrator" as the creator of the community, an individual who can never be dis-invited, and various moderators who they may appoint), does the word "moderator" appear all over the Navigation Bar of the communities I administer, and of which I am the Lord God of Hosts?

Question #2: Where do I go to ask why the community administrator icon isn't different than the regular personal person icon?

Comments

[ysobel]

for #2, the why I think is just because it hasn't been done, and also because it would be trickier to implement. the icons are based on account type -- and it's static across the site, in that wherever on DW you are, dw_docs will always be a community and ivorygates will always be a person and denise will always be staff. Whereas maintainerness is a context-dependent issue; it can't be a global icon change, because knowing that someone is a maintainer of some community somewhere on DW is not really useful information -- so you, or rather the code, would need to know *where* the user tag is being called from (so that if you maintain X, you'd show up with modhat in X but not in Y)

[piscinarii]

I think #2 up there would be VERY nifty for communities, and would love to see something like that implemented here on DW.