https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18944
Summary: add prefs-help-nickname
Product: MediaWiki
Version: 1.16-svn
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: User preferences
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
There should be a prefs-help-nickname added, to explain that
'yournick' => 'Signature:'
is not for the immediately following Email Preferences, but instead for '~~~~'!
So far there are
$ grep --count prefs-help MessagesEn.php
5
prefs-help's. This would be the 6th.
There even is
'tog-fancysig' => 'Treat signature as wikitext (without an automatic link)',
but no prefs-help-nickname.
Other observations:
An administrator should never do just
array_push($wgHiddenPrefs,'nickname');
but instead use
array_push($wgHiddenPrefs,'nickname','fancysig');
as there is no safety feature to stop fancysig from still meaninglessly
showing up independently.
And if an administrator indeed does the aforementioned
array_push($wgHiddenPrefs,'nickname','fancysig');
then users will be stuck with the choices they had made, unable to
change them. So the administrator should consider zapping the
appropriate fields of user_properties, etc. or only setting such
$wgHiddenPrefs in the early days of the wiki, before users have a chance
to set them.
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