"A" == Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com writes:
A> And please, remove the real name info box. Please.
I've just checked in code that allows a sysadmin to disable the real name user interface. I didn't muck with making the database field optional, since I figured a blank field won't hurt much, and trying to optionalize that would just be too hairy.
The configuration variable is $wgAllowRealName, and defaults to true. Someone's going to have to set it to false for those projects that don't want real names. Frankly, I'm not well-enough versed in Wikimedia politics to know how these decisions are made, so I didn't want to do it unilaterally based on feedback on this list.
I haven't changed the code in the credits block and RDF showing real names. I figure that's lower priority, but I'll try to get to it today.
~ESP