Author: webmaster
Description:
Hey Brion, et al:
I am personally getting tired of using the {{Unsigned|User Joe}} template just
to keep talk conversations straight.
I have devised a solution to save users from having to sign posts manually:
- Remove the "~~~~" style signatures from MediaWiki altogether. (to prevent
duplicate signatures)
- Upon submission of an edit, perform a check to make sure user is editing a
talk page. (not an article)
a. IF user is editing a talk page AND user is anonymous, AUTO-APPEND a full
signature (IP Address, time, date, etc)
b. IF user is editing a talk page AND user is logged-in, see step 3.
- Add a new saved user-preference, which allows the user to choose a signature
format for every talk page contribution. This signature choice will be
AUTO-APPENDED to the end of every talk page submission.
(Formats: i.e. Name Only, Name + Time, Name + Time + Date, "Custom") (where
Custom allows the user to change colours, etc as they do today.)
I believe this solution covers pretty much all of the bases, so no (or very
little) functionality or personalization is lost. It also saves a few
button-click/key strokes for every talk page edit. Furthermore, from an
administration side of things, we always get to see who is saying which nasty
things about us, without hunting...
I could see it being only a teeny-tiny increase in submission time, but this
won't affect read-only activities at all.
Thoughts?
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement