https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56537
James Forrester <jforres...@wikimedia.org> changed:
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--- Comment #2 from James Forrester <jforres...@wikimedia.org> ---
Five points:
* The language using the term "beta" is intentionally consistent with the
Mobile team's beta channel - this is the same concept (and will likely
cover Mobile technologies at some point too) and so should be translated
the same.
* "Experimental" sounds clinical, complicated and confusing in English,
which is why it wasn't used.
* If you are translating from English into a language that doesn't use the
Greek word 'beta', and also does not have an equivalent, calling it
"experimental" sounds fine.
* The language using the term "features" is intentionally broad, to cover
new functionality, new UX approaches to existing functionality, new
design concepts, new skins, and other new things. Translations should
use a broad, inclusive term to cover all of these.
* "Labs" is unfortunately already taken by WMF Labs. It would have been a
great name for this, I agree, but that's life. Unless you have a time-
machine handy, we can't fix the confusion that naming these the same
would cause.
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