https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51939
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Bug ID: 51939
Summary: some users have their signature automatically treated
as wiki-markup (i.e. the relevant preference is
checked) apparently without their knowledge
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Vi
llage_pump_(technical)&oldid=565589254#Is_the_signing_
error_ever_going_to_be_fixed
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: User preferences
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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This problem has caused quite a bit of inconvenience and confusion for new
users. In addition to the examples in the above-linked thread, I also know of
the following other instances (found through the edit summary search tool on my
username):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Froid#Your_signature
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Theattackcorgi#Your_signature
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Seonookim/Archive_2#Yoursignature
Affected accounts range in age from relatively old (Froid, August 2006) to
fairly new (Theattackcorgi, February 2013), so it's hard to tell if the bug is
still a problem now. However it obviously affects a non-trivial number of
users, and it would be nice if there signature preferences could be restored to
the default values. Therefore I wasn't sure whether to file this bug under
MediaWiki/Preferences or Wikimedia/Site requests.
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