User:ErrantX/Sandbox/books

A little known feature here is Books which uses the Mediawiki "Collection" extension. I happened upon a discussion on Wikibooks about how the naming used here on WP ("Wikipedia Books") is potentially confusing and twists up with the Wikibooks brand. I think that use of the word "Book" is problematic and could be improved.

On WB's they call it a "collection" (although it still used the "Special:Book" page) to avoid local confusion. I want to propose we do the same here. In short for the following reasons:
 * To avoid brand confusion with Wikibooks
 * To avoid general confusion with what content is acceptable on Wikipedia
 * To unify the name of the feature with what other projects (WB's) are using

There are two levels to this; clearly fundamentally changing the text of the Special page (and the Special page name) is out of scope because of needing developer attention - however if there is stronhg support for such a change I assume we can file a bug ticket?

The aspect we can actually change is the wording of references to the feature around the site; for example the Print/Export side bar text could be changed to "Create a collection". A list of the places I propose to change the wording is: