[NUUG fiksgatami] Confusing question about being anonymous?

[Matthew Somerville]

Hi Petter,

Can issues with FixMyStreet such as this please be reported using the 
github issues interface? That is the appropriate location, and more 
things are kept out of people's email :) This issue has already been 
reported (briefly) some months ago here:
     https://github.com/mysociety/fixmystreet/issues/47

The two strings are different because we changed the wording to make it 
more correct (to "publicly", as it could be shown on other sites with 
our Guardian collaboration, for example), but this wasn't needed for 
ReportEmptyHomes (and we didn't want to lose the Welsh translation), so 
they kept the old text (for now). It can probably become just the one 
new text once that is picked.

So yes, this can be changed - but I suggest waiting until the Catalyst 
move is complete, or at least doing it to that branch. "Show my name 
publicly" seems fine to me.

ATB,
Matthew

On 19/04/2011 08:34, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> I just noticed in<URL: http://www.fiksgatami.no/report/4319>  a user
> complaining about the Norwegian question about being anonymous being
> confusing.  The text is a direct translation from the English text:
>
>    [ ] "Can we show your name on the site?" (English)
>    [ ] "Kan vi vise ditt navn offentlig?" (Norwegian)
>
> And looking closely at the text, I agree with the user saying that it
> is very hard to understand what the selection means, if it means to
> remove the name or not.  Do you agree?  Perhaps it should be
> rephrased to better indicate what ?
>
> Something like this might be clearer, removing the question and more
> clearly indicate what the selection mean.
>
>    [ ] "Show my name on the site"
>    [ ] "Vis navnet mitt på nettsidene"
>
> I can prepare a patch if this is seen as a good idea.


On 19/04/2011 09:10, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
 > Gah, I picked the wrong one.  The code look like this:
 >
 >      if ($q->{site} eq 'emptyhomes') {
 >          $vars{anonymous} = _('Can we show your name on the site?');
 >      } else {
 >          $vars{anonymous} = _('Can we show your name publicly?');
 >      }
 >
 > (Why are these two different?)
 >
 > Anyway, the text used on fixmystreet is this:
 >
 >    [ ] Can we show your name publicly?
 >    [ ] Kan vi vise ditt navn offentlig?
 >
 > And my point still holds, as it is the 'Can we' and the question mark
 > that seem to confuse.