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[Aaron Wells <1282219@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We asked on the forums and no one really had any useful suggestions
there. Well, they had useful suggestions, but those suggestions were
around the idea of replacing the current system of HTML fields with one
where sitepages/generalpages/staticpages are full-on Portfolio Pages
with blocks and everything. And while that would be a good idea in the
long run, it's not doable right now before 1.9.0 and it didn't help us
come up with a better name.

So I've pushed a patch to rename these from "general pages" to "static
pages". One of my pet peeves with Moodle administration is that it is
full of names for things that don't tell you anything about how those
things are different from each other. For instance, groups, groupings,
and cohorts. All basically synonyms, and thus the names are not self-
documenting in the least.

Since Mahara already has usability issues, I'd like to try to make it so
that when we rename Mahara features, we give them names that make it
self-evident to the user, how these features are different from each
other. To that end, "static pages" is better than "general pages" when
it comes to differentiating these from normal portfolio Pages.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1282219

Title:
  Rename "Edit site pages" to "General pages" to "Static pages"

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  "Edit site pages" existed for the entire site, but since bug #1254299
  now also for institutions. I find this wording unfortunate as you mix
  site pages into institution pages.

  I suggest we rename "Edit site pages" to "General pages". That way, we fix a few things
  1. Get rid of "Edit": we don't have a verb in any of the other menu items anymore.
  2. Get rid of "Site" because it can also be confused with the site "portfolio" pages that can be created and used as templates for example.
  3. Still allows us to have the same menu item for institutions without mixing site into institution.

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