>> From the standpoint of programmatically detecting a signature, the above >> could be cleaned up and work well enough. >> > Would this mean that if people had a fancy sig, and they changed it, > it would automatically update everywhere with this magic tag instead > of just applying to new signatures? (Which might be cool) > > Downside to that you might have some tricky issue where people change > their sig after the fact to be something malicious (For some > definition of malicious), and then all the old sigs change without an > edit to track it and generally be a vehicle for mass vandalism. > (Didn't that use to be an issue on /. ?)
I haven't looked at the actual patch yet, but based on the discussion it seems like this code would allow us to update pages if people's signatures changed? I too am not sure this is a good idea. I do though support the idea of wrapping signatures in a <sig> markup to make it easier to programatically detect them. That <sig> markup could be rendered as a span with a class="sig" as well which allow those who are just scraping the HTML of the page to be able to detect them as well. > This also makes working out what the state of the page at time X quite > hard for things like "Please note that I am being paid to edit by XYZ Inc." > that come and go from month to month to be seen. This is one of my biggest concerns as well. Thank you, Derric Atzrott _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
