Any reason why? I can't seem to find anything on it. - Chris
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Chad <innocentkil...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 4:20 PM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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. > > > > It's disabled on WMF wikis afaik. > > -Chad > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
