On 9 May 2014 19:04, Risker <[email protected]> wrote: >> Indeed, or in the user preferences so that it could be accessed natively. >> >> > Whatever solution is proposed must accommodate the fact that the > affiliation at the time of the edit or other action must remain linked to > the edit or action, even if the affiliation changes at a subsequent time > (kind of like subst'ing templates). Not sure this is possible through > preferences.
If history/logs/etc displayed "username at the time" rather than "username as it is now", then you could square this circle - encourage renaming from User:Jane_Smith to User:Jane_Smith_(Megacorp) then back to User:Jane_Smith, in order to accomodate changes over time. Of course, this would have other side-effects - the rename-to-vanish or rename-for-privacy method we currently use would be impossible, for one thing... Andrew. -- - Andrew Gray [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
