On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Peter Southwood < peter.southwood@telkomsa.net> wrote:
Preferable for the affiliation to be a variable linked to the username. It can then be changed if/when applicable. Is should be possible to link a string of affiliations to a username. User should be able to add affiliations at will but probably should have to request to have them removed Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris McKenna" cmckenna@sucs.org To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2014 6:23 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Affiliation in username
Do WMF accounts still get the staff usergroup? If so, then the "affiliation variable" already exists. Building the (WMF) into the username makes the affiliation close to indelible; if it is confined to a usergroup, then the removal of the usergroup hides the previously obvious connection between edit and affiliation.