Thanks, Frederick. Does anyone know who can make modifications to our MediaWiki configuration?
2011/3/17 Frederick Grose - fgr...@gmail.com: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 2:44 PM, > <tosmaillist.neophyte_...@ordinaryamerican.net> wrote: >> >> You're right, Steve. I noticed that when Mel first published the >> application wiki page for comments. >> >> I thought then, and do now, that offering applicants a promise of >> privacy for such information is appropriate. I also think, if anyone >> is to become a regular member of this particular community, it is >> often appropriate to contact that one directly. > > MediaWiki provides a configuration for private user-to-user email. > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgEnableUserEmail > > It is true by default, but not enabled on TOS wiki. > For an example of the email form, see > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Special:EmailUser/FGrose > > The email link for an arbitrary user will appear in the 'Tools' section of > the usual MediaWiki sidebar. With the Paul Gu skin in the TOS wiki, the link > would appear in the bottom dark page bar, if the feature were activated. > (The <wiki>/Special:EmailUser/<User> link format may also be used if the > feature is active.) > > Users may set a preference to hide their email address and receive email > through the wiki. See > http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Special:Preferences > When user-to-user email is activated, there is an option to turn that on or > off, also. > > --Fred > >> {...} > > > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > tos@teachingopensource.org > http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > > _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
