18F/site-scanning

Brainstorm better names for target URL list

Closed this issue · 2 comments

  • List of federal .gov websites
  • List of federal websites (.gov only)
  • Federal website inventory
  • Federal website directory
  • Website index (b/c for our audience, the federal can be implicit and then specified later; same with the .gov part)
  • Core website index ( " )
  • Public website index
  • Public website directory

Proposed:

  • We call this the website index.
  • It can be more specifically referred to as the "federal website index".
  • In context, we'd call it our website index, e.g. the Site Scanning website index, or the federal website index that Site Scanning builds.
  • We avoid making it a proper noun. So, it's not the "Federal Website Index" or "Website Index", but rather the website index that our program maintains.

It's been seconded, so we're going to go with this for now and see how we like it.