My summary based on reading and looking at discussions:
Options are:
(a) use a regexp to identify sigs -- dirty, but can apply to old
discussions
(b) new markup <span>/<sig>/{{#sig:..}} added via PST -- cleaner, but
applies only to new discussions, but new wikitext markup
(c) don't do it and leave it for discussion systems to handle signatures
As for what direction to go with (a)/(b)/(c), that is a different issue.
If (b), I think parsoid folks (and jackmcbarn) are advocating for a
markup like <sig>..</sig> rather than inline <span> as in the patch or a
parser function. The <sig> allows for rendering to be semantic, html to
be tweaked as needs change (with the same markup), etc.
Subbu.
On 09/30/2014 05:00 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
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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