Some folks in #wikimedia-parsoid are still real excited about the idea
though, so a couple more notes should people decide they like it anyway. :)
* Consider either a wikitext wrapper like {{#sig:Username}} (my preference)
or a markup tag like <sig>Username</sig> (Gabriel's preference I think?)
to
go in the wikitext; this will make the resulting sigs look less crufty in
talk and vote pages (which do still exist, alas!)
* Use a span as the actual HTML rendering that can be parsoid-friendly and
thus VisualEditor-friendly.
* Consider though whether the HTML should be "spoofable" and what happens
if you do.
* Consider that old revisions and archived talk pages will not have this
markup, so there could be inconsistency. Beware what you use it for etc.
-- brion
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Brion Vibber <bvibber(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Please don't; signatures belong as a feature of
the discussion and voting
systems and don't belong in wikitext. They're crufty enough as is and I'd
recommend against making them cruftier.
-- brion
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Erik Bernhardson <
ebernhardson(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
There is currently a patch in gerrit,
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/130094/ , that has been hanging around
for a few months. To me it seems like an easy patch with some obvious
benefits.
JackMcbarn suggested this might need wider discussion/notice so putting it
up here to get a little more visibility.
Erik B.
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