Reconsider placement of signatures to make comments more readable
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	Apr 10 2020, 12:05 AM

Description

There are instances where people opt to sign their comments on separate lines [seemingly] in an effort to make them easier for others to read.

The root of this task is about understanding how talk page comments can be presented in a way that makes them easy for people to read/understand, regardless of the kind and volume of content they contain.

Use cases

To differentiate a signature from a preformatted block of text. [1]
To make comments containing multiple paragraphs appear to others as a cohesive whole. [2][3][4]

Context

See how @Samat described this issue on MediaWiki here.

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Open		None	T249579 [EPIC] Usability improvements: make the actions, activity and content within talk pages easier to understand
		Open		None	T249889 Reconsider placement of signatures to make comments more readable

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ppelberg created this task.Apr 10 2020, 12:05 AM

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ppelberg added a parent task: T249579: [EPIC] Usability improvements: make the actions, activity and content within talk pages easier to understand.Apr 10 2020, 12:06 AM

ppelberg renamed this task from Revise placement of signatures to make comments more readable to Reconsider placement of signatures to make comments more readable.Apr 10 2020, 4:00 AM

At the moment, if you add a blank line and type the signature code on the next line, you'll get this effect. You need to type something like this:

One
Two
Three

~~~~

which will produce this wikitext:

:One
:Two
:Three
:
:[[User:Example]] [[User talk:Example|talk]]) 12:00, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Esanders added a project: DiscussionTools.Jun 25 2020, 12:47 PM

• Whatamidoing-WMF mentioned this in T250433: Reply tool should allow a last newline to isolate the signature.Nov 12 2021, 1:36 AM

ppelberg moved this task from Backlog to New Features on the DiscussionTools board.Dec 9 2021, 4:54 PM

Nardog subscribed.Mar 1 2022, 3:14 AM

VPuffetMichel removed a project: OWC2020 (OWC2020 Replying 1.0).Sep 8 2022, 3:58 PM

ppelberg edited projects, added Design; removed Editing-team (Tracking).Sep 10 2022, 12:02 AM

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