Change wording where `roll back` is used

[kebbet]

The terms roll back and rolled back are used in user facing strings, which to a novice user is not that clear, and querky to translate for at least me as a translator.

I suggest using restore and restored in their places.

​https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/4436

See ticket description.

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/58282

Thanks for the review @costdev, much better with your suggestions! They are now applied.

[costdev]

Thanks for opening this ticket @kebbet!

Following my review on the PR, I thought it was probably a good idea that I dropped a comment on the ticket for posterity 😆

I agree that "Rolled back", "rollback" and "rolling back" and, to an extent, "revert", isn't very accessible language to most non-technical users.

"Restore", "Return to", "Reinstall", "Reverse", "Undo", and such, are much more common words to describe the same process.

It's likely that the appropriate language is contextual rather than a one-size-fits-all solution.

[kebbet]

Of course, language and the meaning of our words is contextual! My first run was just a suggestion for something else. And beeing a non native speaker of English they revealed my limitations :)

[kebbet]

For the record, this PR might need an update after a decision is made in this ticket.

​https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/3958

[NekoJonez]

"Returned" or "not changed" or something among those lines I'd use.

The suggested strings indeed look better to me. Thanks!

[davidbaumwald]

+1 to changing the wording. I prefer something like "restore" which a lot of users are familiar with these days in the context of something related to backups. Also, "roll back" might have some ambiguity after being translated.

[audrasjb]

With several ✅ reviews, I think we can consider this changeset as ready to ship :)

Self assigning for commit.

[audrasjb]

In 55750:

I18N: Replace "Roll back" with "Restore" in user facing strings.

The terms "roll back" and "rolled back" are used in user facing strings since [55720]. These termes are not that clear for novice users and may be difficult to translate in some locales. This changeset replaces "roll back" with "restore" and "rolled back" with "restored" or "not applied" depending of the context of the screen.

Follow-up to [55720].

Props kebbet, costdev, NekoJonez, audrasjb, SergeyBiryukov, davidbaumwald.
Fixes #58282.

committed in https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/55750

[audrasjb]

In 55751:

Coding Standards: Use esc_url() to escape link URL value in wp-admin/edit-link-form.php.

Props dilipbheda, mukesh27.
Fixes #58282.
See #57839.

[audrasjb]

Sorry for the unrelated commit. [55751] fixes #58268.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Thanks for the commit!

Replying to audrasjb:

The terms "roll back" and "rolled back" are used in user facing strings since [55720].

Just to clarify, these strings were not added in that commit, it does not mention "rollback" in any user-facing strings :)

• The strings frmo Core_Upgrader were added in [25649] and adjusted in [25655].
• The string from wp_print_file_editor_templates() was added in [41721].

[audrasjb]

Ah yes, I messed up with the different Rollback updates, thanks for clarifying :)

(and I didn't mention wp_print_file_editor_templates() because it's a side change, but that's right!)