2009/2/2 Andrew Gray <shimg...@gmail.com>: > It would be helpful to figure out some way of (automatically) being > able to have a given username "translate" into a different name when a > list of credits is generated - we would have a list which better > reflects the attribution wishes of our users, and one which looks a > little "neater" for the reuser to put in their Respectable Scholarly > Publication. Win-win situation. > So how could we do it? At a rough sketch, I'm envisaging: > * each user has a "credit" field which they can (optionally!) set > through preferences > I note that MediaWiki already has a user_real_name field - could we > use it for this sort of purpose? Would this be technically practical?
Default MediaWiki has this as an option anyone who cares can set. On our work intranet wiki, it specifically says it's for giving credit under. I couldn't find it in my en:wp preferences, though ... what happened to it? - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
