History:Bad Terminology
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Problems with Terminology used in MusicBrainz
- Some of the MusicBrainzTerminology is confusing for new users and should be changed.
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There are also a number of groups of related terminology that could be improved by changing them. In approximately decreasing order of acceptance, they are:
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Album => Release
- While popular, this is tightly coupled with various database change propsals like ReleaseGroups that haven't really been taken up
Album -> Release
This helps eliminate the confusion between "Album Albums" and "Compilation" or "Live" etc. "Albums", so that Albums and Singles become types of release - this is almost done in a branch of CVS, but not on the main site.
- Which CVS branch? I would guess it's a bit dated by now. @alex
Does MCs count as "albums"? I would never have called an MC release an album before I started working on MusicBrainz... --FrederikSOlesen
A Release should eventually be able to contain multiple Discs (what are currently called Albums) in order to properly represent multi-disc releases, box sets, etc.
- So is it Album -> Release or Album -> Disc? This is where the terminlogy gets tied to database changes that will come slowly, if at all. @alex
- It's Album -> Release - a release can be an MC (or other forms of cassettes or non-discs). --FrederikSOlesen
- Not necessarily. The current terminology changes are album -> release. But if NextGenerationSchema gets implemented, the current release "object" will get splitted into album (if we can't find a better word), release and medium. -- Shepard 09:51, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
- It's Album -> Release - a release can be an MC (or other forms of cassettes or non-discs). --FrederikSOlesen
Release -> Release Date
We currently use the word Release to indicate a release date (in a country). An actual release would include the Label and the media. Or be a replacement for 'album' (see above).
- I'm not sure what should happen to what is currently called "Release information" or "Releases", which consists of dates, countries of and possibly types (CD, Vinyl, Tape etc.) of release. --RjMunro
- The current release information should become attributes of a Release, including other data such as ASIN, BarCodes, and other unique identifiers. --Agrundma
- Calling them "attributes" is confusing because we currently use these for (Single, Official, etc.). I prefer "Release Data" -- not date -- because there's a country (and maybe media type, UPC, etc.) as well. @alex
- The current release information should become attributes of a Release, including other data such as ASIN, BarCodes, and other unique identifiers. --Agrundma
Karma System => Editor Rating
- People seem to agree not to use the term "Karma System", but since there is no such system in place, it's somewhat moot. Now JohnRamsay has raised the issue again, I do not really understand why. Maybe we interpret the past discussions differently? --DonRedman (pretty confused)
Karma -> EditorRating
Again, it's inherited from slashdot. It's a slashdotism, not a real use of the word. When I first showed a friend of mine the SurvivalOfTheFittest proposal, he said "Yuk... This page uses words like paradigm and Karma" and was immediately put off. This person owns a company that does things lots of design for usability etc. so he knows what he is talking about.
- What is better: EditorRating or EditorRanking? English is not my native language, so could please someone else decide by creating one of the two pages. --DonRedman Rating is a measurment. Ranking is position in a list. Ranks go first, second, third etc. There's no reason not to have both. Currently, we have several rankings on the site - top moderators ever, top moderators per week, top voters ever, top voters per week. We could use these to help generate ratings, and/or we could have rankings based on ratings. --RjMunro I'd go with 'rating' for just that reason, Rj. With ranking, someone has to be at the top, regardless of qualification. Ratings are independent of other people, just a statement of this person's qualifications. So if we are aiming at a system that rates people according to their editing skill, and voting accuracy, then rating is what we want. The rankings for top voter/editor/etc., remain great incentive to do more, though. --Jinxie Agreed 100% -- rating sounds like the right approach --Ruaok Maybe we should also have EditorRanting...! Ratings are more useful because they allow other moderators to guage the reliability of the mod by getting a sense of the depth and breadth of the moderators edits in the past. Of course the numbers skew at either end of the spectrum. There should be a minimum number of moderations before rating starts or possible starting all mods with 100 points and max at 250 points or zero. If a time factor was introduced then time would heal all wounds moving all mods back to 100 over time. It would give those who start out misguided but who learn by trial and error a chance to not just scrap the login ID and start over. Look at the system E-Bay employs alerts all buyers to new and inexperienced sellers and rewards the long-term consistent service providers.
What about a "member since" star (or similar) system for loyalty growing/ bragging rights, instead of mod ratings, since competition among moderators is counter-productive. There are also the 'pieces of flare' reward systems that some forums use to recognize above average posters. --JohnRamsay
Pages to Rename
- AutoModNomination => AutoEditorElection
-- murdos - ModNote, ModerationNote => EditNote
- CommonlyUsedModerationNotes => CommonlyUsedEditNotes -- murdos
- ModerationFAQ => EditingFAQ
- ModerationGuide => EditingGuide / VotingGuide as appropriate (?)
- ModerationPhilosophy => EditingPhilosophy / VotingPhilosophy as appropriate (?)
- ModeratorPrivacy => EditorPrivacy -- Keschte
- SubscribeToModerator => SubscribeToEditor -- murdos
Difficult
- AdvancedModeration => AdvancedEditing -- historical, leave as is
- ModerationInterfaceSuggestions -- historical, leave as is
- ModerationImprovements => EditingImprovements -- historical, leave as is
- ModerationTypeHelp -- superceded by EditType
- WaitingForModeration => WaitingForVote -- historical, leave as is