Last modified: 2014-09-03 14:51:34 UTC
The term "header" as it's currently used in Flow is very confusing. The dictionary definition of "header" is "a word or series of words often in larger letters placed at the beginning of a passage or at the top of a page in order to introduce or categorize". This is not quite what "header" is in "Flow" - it is rather an optional description of a page, that appears under its title. Because of this difference it is hard to translate, and hard to understand in English in the first place. It should probably renamed to something like "description" or "sub-heading".
The WMF core features team tracks this bug on Mingle card https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/flow/cards/547, but people from the community are welcome to contribute here and in Gerrit.
Oxford dictionary says 4a line or block of text appearing at the top of each page of a book or document. Compare with footer. the part of an email before the message, containing information such as the subject and sender: so "header" is OK but not ideal. A board's header could contain anything, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Military_History . Maybe "description" or "introduction" is better. Meanwhile the gray box at the top of each topic containing the topic title and participant count and other information is like a "topic header" in the e-mail sense. We don't currently name (I think it's been called "topic bar" internally a few times) so users fumble for their own names for it and a couple have called it "the topic header".
I commented on this a little more, at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Flow/Nomenclature#Header
Would someone please tell me what must be done to fix this bug?
Aravind: See previous comments (or ask a more specific question). It's not clear though what a better word would be, so this is not very actionable.
