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.
*Jared Zimmerman * \ Director of User Experience \ Wikimedia Foundation
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On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Gryllida gryllida@fastmail.fm wrote:
On a second thought, do we want to add an optional "affiliation" field to the signup form, so the affiliation goes at the end of username in braces?
- DGarry (WMF)
- Fred (DesignSolutionsInc)
- David (MIT)
- ...
So the signup form would look like this:
| | | [ Username preview in large green font ] | | | | Username: | | ___________________ | | Password: | | ___________________ | | Password 2: | | ___________________ | | Email (optional): | | ___________________ | | Affiliation (optional; if your editing is related to work): | | ___________________ | | |
I.e.
| | | [ "Gryllida (FOO)" in large green font ] | | | | Username: | | _Gryllida__________ | | Password: | | ___________________ | | Password 2: | | ___________________ | | Email (optional): | | ___________________ | | Affiliation (optional; if your editing is related to work): | | _FOO_______________ | | |
Gryllida.
On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, at 1:25, rupert THURNER wrote:
hi,
could wmf please extend the mediawiki software in the following way:
- it should knows "groups"
- allow users to store an arbitrary number of groups with their profile
- allow to select one of the "group"s joined to an edit when saving
- add a checkbox "COI" to an edit, meaning "potential conflict of
interest"
- display and filter edits marked with COI in a different color in
history
views 6. display and filter edits done for a group in a different color in history views 7. allow members of a group to receive notifications done on the group
page,
or when a group is mentioned in an edit/comment/talk page.
reason: currently it is quite cumbersome to participate as an organisation. it is quite cumbersome for people as well to detect COI edits. the most
prominent
examples are employees of the wikimedia foundation, and GLAMs. users tend to create multiple accounts, and try to create "company accounts". the
main
reason for this behaviour are (examples, but of course valid general):
- have a feedback page / notification page for the swiss federal archive
for other users
- make clear that an edit is done private or as wmf employee
this then would allow the community to create new policies, e.g. the
german
community might cease using company accounts, and switch over to this system. this proposal is purely technical. current policies can still be applied if people do not need something else, e.g. wmf employees may continue to use "sue gardner (wmf)" accounts.
what you think?
best regards, rupert
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