On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Peter Southwood < [email protected]> wrote:
> Preferable for the affiliation to be a variable linked to the username. It > can then be changed if/when applicable. Is should be possible to link a > string of affiliations to a username. User should be able to add > affiliations at will but probably should have to request to have them > removed > Peter > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris McKenna" <[email protected]> > To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2014 6:23 PM > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Affiliation in username > > > > Do WMF accounts still get the staff usergroup? If so, then the "affiliation variable" already exists. Building the (WMF) into the username makes the affiliation close to indelible; if it is confined to a usergroup, then the removal of the usergroup hides the previously obvious connection between edit and affiliation. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
