[Foundation-l] Attribution made cleaner?

[Chad]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 4:20 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/2/2 Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com>:
>
> > It would be helpful to figure out some way of (automatically) being
> > able to have a given username "translate" into a different name when a
> > list of credits is generated - we would have a list which better
> > reflects the attribution wishes of our users, and one which looks a
> > little "neater" for the reuser to put in their Respectable Scholarly
> > Publication. Win-win situation.
> > So how could we do it? At a rough sketch, I'm envisaging:
> > * each user has a "credit" field which they can (optionally!) set
> > through preferences
> > I note that MediaWiki already has a user_real_name field - could we
> > use it for this sort of purpose? Would this be technically practical?
>
>
> Default MediaWiki has this as an option anyone who cares can set. On
> our work intranet wiki, it specifically says it's for giving credit
> under. I couldn't find it in my en:wp preferences, though ... what
> happened to it?
>
>
> - d.
>

It's disabled on WMF wikis afaik.

-Chad