User talk:WhatamIdoing

Hi
Hi there. Sorry for the mildly snarky reply on the flow portal page; where should I send the thesaurus? :-) Risker (talk) 05:17, 15 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi, Risker. It's kind of a funny note.  On the other hand, none of those words actually have exactly the same meaning.  For example, it's often a procedure (and my examples are), but not always.  However, perhaps your suggested words will find favor with the OP.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:33, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Well, I actually take exception to the use of the term "workflow" to some of the things that are being labeled that way; it's just WMF shorthand for "something that happens" more than "something that is performed in specific steps that are carefully ordered and interdependent", which is the normal real-world definition of "workflow". The term is being used to describe processes as opposed to workflows in a lot of cases, and there are differences.  I've already been pounded on for not wanting to use the word "board" because every time I see it, I can only think of bulletin boards and message boards, and things that are so 1990s, and I'm fairly amazed that anyone would want that kind of mental association with a spiffy new project. But meh.  At least my arbcom term will be done before this gets deployed.  Risker (talk) 05:41, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
 * When I hear "board" I tend to think about the physical objects in schools. But I don't really care what they call it.  I don't believe that any word used by any dev has the power to turn Wikipedia into Facebook, and we will ultimately call it whatever we want.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 14:55, 15 July 2013 (UTC)