Re: [Wikitech-l] Affiliation in username

2014-05-14 Thread Gabriel Wicke
On 05/07/2014 10:47 PM, Tyler Romeo wrote: > One interesting idea might be what Reddit does: > > For a moderator of a subreddit, whenever they make a post it just appears > normally. However, after posting they can choose to "officiate" it. All > that does is highlight their username a different c

Re: [Wikitech-l] Affiliation in username

2014-05-09 Thread Ryan Lane
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Jared Zimmerman < jared.zimmer...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Affiliations change, and user names are quite difficult to change, this > sounds like something that would be good for a structured profile, not for > a user name. > > Indeed, or in the user preferences so th

Re: [Wikitech-l] Affiliation in username

2014-05-09 Thread Gryllida
On Thu, 8 May 2014, at 6:22, Jared Zimmerman wrote: > Affiliations change, and user names are quite difficult to change, this > sounds like something that would be good for a structured profile, not for > a user name. One of the times I wish I could rename a thread. Someone with spare time may wan

Re: [Wikitech-l] Affiliation in username

2014-05-07 Thread Tyler Romeo
One interesting idea might be what Reddit does: For a moderator of a subreddit, whenever they make a post it just appears normally. However, after posting they can choose to "officiate" it. All that does is highlight their username a different color and indicates they are acting in their position

Re: [Wikitech-l] Affiliation in username

2014-05-07 Thread Jared Zimmerman
Affiliations change, and user names are quite difficult to change, this sounds like something that would be good for a structured profile, not for a user name. *Jared Zimmerman * \\ Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia Foundation M : +1 415 609 4043 | : @JaredZimmerman