On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Jared Zimmerman < jared.zimmerman@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Affiliations change, and user names are quite difficult to change, this sounds like something that would be good for a structured profile, not for a user name.
Indeed, or in the user preferences so that it could be accessed natively.
- Ryan
On 9 May 2014 13:30, Ryan Lane rlane32@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Jared Zimmerman < jared.zimmerman@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Affiliations change, and user names are quite difficult to change, this sounds like something that would be good for a structured profile, not
for
a user name.
Indeed, or in the user preferences so that it could be accessed natively.
Whatever solution is proposed must accommodate the fact that the affiliation at the time of the edit or other action must remain linked to the edit or action, even if the affiliation changes at a subsequent time (kind of like subst'ing templates). Not sure this is possible through preferences.
Risker/Anne
On 9 May 2014 19:04, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
Indeed, or in the user preferences so that it could be accessed natively.
Whatever solution is proposed must accommodate the fact that the affiliation at the time of the edit or other action must remain linked to the edit or action, even if the affiliation changes at a subsequent time (kind of like subst'ing templates). Not sure this is possible through preferences.
If history/logs/etc displayed "username at the time" rather than "username as it is now", then you could square this circle - encourage renaming from User:Jane_Smith to User:Jane_Smith_(Megacorp) then back to User:Jane_Smith, in order to accomodate changes over time.
Of course, this would have other side-effects - the rename-to-vanish or rename-for-privacy method we currently use would be impossible, for one thing...
Andrew.
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