[Foundation-l] Attribution made cleaner?

[Chris Down]

Any reason why? I can't seem to find anything on it.

- Chris

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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