Please distinguish more clearly between polls, voting and surveys
- Status
- Open
- Subject
- Please distinguish more clearly between polls, voting and surveys
- Version
- 18.x
21.x
23.x - Category
- Consistency
- Feature
- Poll
Survey - Resolution status
- New
- Submitted by
- hman
- Lastmod by
- hman
- Rating
- Description
While refining the localization for German (de_de), I came across voting, polling and surveys in Tiki.
Unfortunately (because Tiki just makes "blind" (or "dumb") string matching disregarding context, votes and poll answers and results are mixed up, especially when they are called "vote", making it very hard to translate (because the translations for those differ vastly).
The entire systems for voting, polling, surveying (and rating) should be proof-read to ensure a consistent language (and here I speak about English) throughout Tiki. Maybe this should be supervised by a native speaker of English (which I am not, so read the following cum grano salis).
To show you what I mean by that:
A poll is NOT a voting (election). A poll is (mostly) a survey done by researchers or journalists. Even if it is done in front of an official place to cast votes (unfortunately here even language itself being imprecise, calling such places "polling stations"), the so-called "exit poll", voters of the actual election are asked (!) about their votes or ballots.What these people answer to the poller are NOT votes (votes are cast inside and are mostly secret!). These are answers that voters give voluntarily, and may or MAY NOT be identical to the actual votes (people are entitled to lie to a poller!).
So do not call answers to a poll "vote", please. They are votes if they are part of an actual decision making process in the operation of a Tiki installation.
We should therefore distinguish between poll and election.
If users are asked about opinions, these are answers.And rating is something different, here users give gradually defined answers, best example is "school grades" (side remark from your fellow translator: In the US those are from A to F, in Germany they are from 1 to 6, A und 1 being the best)
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- 4
- Easy to solve?
- 6
- Priority
- 24
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- Ticket ID
- 7687
- Created
- Thursday 18 February, 2021 11:08:23 UTC
by hman - LastModif
- Thursday 18 February, 2021 11:13:46 UTC