Apart from that using an employee-ID as Common-name in LDAP is really bad in my opinion (but i can't change that), it might be a good
feature
if there was an option "$wgUseRealNameInUserLinks" so that the Real
Name
is shown in the changes history.
I have hacked that into my installation (1.8.2) and it's only a minor change in includes/Linker.php:
*** 761,767 **** * @private */ function userLink( $userId, $userText ) { ! $encName = htmlspecialchars( User::whoIsReal($userId)
);
if( $userId == 0 ) { $contribsPage = Title::makeTitle( NS_SPECIAL,'Contributions' ); return $this->makeKnownLinkObj( $contribsPage, --- 761,767 ---- * @private */ function userLink( $userId, $userText ) { ! $encName = htmlspecialchars( $userText ); if( $userId == 0 ) { $contribsPage = Title::makeTitle( NS_SPECIAL, 'Contributions' ); return $this->makeKnownLinkObj( $contribsPage,
I think my case is not that unique and this feature would help using mediawiki in enterprises.
What's your opinion? Reinhard
I agree; this would probably be pretty helpful. You should add a request for this feature to the bugzilla. This probably needs to be more generic though. You could use an option with the default being the current functionality.
Does anyone in this email list have commit access to SVN?
I know this feature needs to go through bugzilla, but it would be nice if the people doing the commiting see the email chain concerning features we need added.
V/r,
Ryan Lane