In most wikis, verbs used in UI buttons or links are using the infinitive form rather than the imperative. It is more formal/polite as the imperative sounds like you're giving a strong order, when in fact you're just describing the action that will be done **if** the user follows the link or click the button. An imperative is still sometimes used when this is a directive / policy, or a strong recommendation, or in usage guides describing a list of action to perform in a precise order to perform a task correctly and completely, or when there's an incitation generally with an exclamation mark (such as "Donate now!"), or a "Please...". For example, the "Edit" or "Talk" or "Publish" or "Cancel" buttons are normally just an infinitive, not an imperative: we are not instructing the user to do it immediately, we just offer her some options to do something (or something else). Notes: * Some languages still prefer using the imperative form in a less formal form. Sometimes they also do not hesitate to talk directly to the user, such as German using "Du" rather than the formal "Sie" for translating the English "you". Still, German also has a more "formal" translation using infinitive and "Sie", with a language variant coded as "de-formal". * Some other languages prefer the formal form by default, but also have an informal form, such as Dutch, with a language variant coded as "nl-informal". * With these variants, users can choose the correct form they prefer and that sound look more correct for them. 2016-12-05 16:02 GMT+01:00 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il>il>: