Hi,
2009/1/16 David Lubkin admin@unreasonable.com
I'm an ancient UNIX hand and I've been wrangling DBs for even longer, but am new to MediaWiki. So I know how to accomplish what I want to do, but not what ways go with the flow.
I have content in other formats that I'm importing as articles and sections. The original authors of that content will be users in the wiki. I want the author in the MW database for an edit I'm importing to be the original author, not the sysop, a bot, or 0.
Occasionally, I may need to edit as someone else, e.g., so that
I'm a MW beginner as well, but AFAIK the ~~~~ is converted to text upon save, so you could just enter the actual result-text immediately as well (if you know the author, you can also know the user name/nickname that replaces the ~~~~.
Jean-Marc van Leerdam wrote:
Hi,
2009/1/16 David Lubkin admin@unreasonable.com
I'm an ancient UNIX hand and I've been wrangling DBs for even longer, but am new to MediaWiki. So I know how to accomplish what I want to do, but not what ways go with the flow.
I have content in other formats that I'm importing as articles and sections. The original authors of that content will be users in the wiki. I want the author in the MW database for an edit I'm importing to be the original author, not the sysop, a bot, or 0.
I think some maintenance script allow you to set the user name. They use user_id 0, but with the given name, so users don't see the difference.
Occasionally, I may need to edit as someone else, e.g., so that
I'm a MW beginner as well, but AFAIK the ~~~~ is converted to text upon save, so you could just enter the actual result-text immediately as well (if you know the author, you can also know the user name/nickname that replaces the ~~~~.
You're right. You could event change your preferences so ~~~~ expands to a different user signature. The real signing user can be verified on the history tab.
But why would you want to su to them?? You can always place their name and note on the summary that you're copying it from FooBar. Allowing admins to change their identity completely breaks accountability.
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