On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 4:20 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2009/2/2 Andrew Gray <[email protected]>: > > > 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 [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
