Ladies and gentlemen, I fear we may be in danger of falling afoul of Parkinson's Law of Triviality here....
Richard Symonds Office & Development Manager Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 07885 764 613 Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited, a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). It is an independent non-profit organization with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Deryck Chan <[email protected]> wrote: > I would recommend putting square brackets (and maybe "User:") around the > username whenever both real name and username are supplied. It's seldom > immediately obvious which name is the username and which name is the real > name if you don't speak the other person's mother language! > > Deryck > > > 2012/4/23 Delphine Ménard <[email protected]> > >> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Deryck Chan <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Dear organizing team, >> > >> > Thanks for offering 4 check-boxes for the details on the badge! May I >> ask, >> > how will the details be presented? I think it'll be a useful piece of >> > information for many of us whose username is the same as our real name. >> If >> > it looks like >> > >> > First Last >> > username >> > project >> > >> > it'll be a bit redundant for us to have our name written exactly the >> same >> > way twice; but if it looks like >> >> Well, my username has nothing to do with my real name :) So it won't >> be redundant for all :P >> > >> > First Last >> > [[User:Username]]@project >> >> This said, I think that having: [[Username]] (ie. the brackets around >> the user name) is a nice way to avoid complete redundancy when the >> Username is the same as the First and Last Name. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Delphine >> >> -- >> @notafish >> >> NB. This gmail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails will >> get lost. >> Intercultural musings: Ceci n'est pas une endive - >> http://blog.notanendive.org >> Photos with simple eyes: notaphoto - http://photo.notafish.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimania-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > >
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