WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki — Issue #51: page is a misnomer, should be called article
Author: WardCunningham
Created: 2011-10-16 17:46:28+00:00
State: open

The implementation of this wiki would be easier to follow if the word `article` were used in place of almost every reference to a `page`. Although the original wiki spoke of pages, Wikipedia prefers the more accurate term, article. For good reason. Article refers to the creative work, page refers to a medium upon which it might be delivered. Since we deliver multiple articles on a single web page, this misuse of terms is especially confusing. See also:

* [Article-Page Pattern](http://www.welie.com/patterns/showPattern.php?patternID=article-page)
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_(publishing)

I suggest wholesale replacement of the one term with the other in our code, in the file hierarchy and in our ongoing conversation.