On Mon, 21 Apr 2014, at 0:58, Isarra Yos wrote: > On 20/04/14 11:50, Liangent wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) > > <nemow...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > >> Amir E. Aharoni, 20/04/2014 08:39: > >> > >> Silly technical remark: Everybody, please stop doing this with > >>> parentheses. > >>> It breaks in right to left languages. Gary-WMF is just as readable, and > >>> doesn't have this problem. Thanks for the attention. > >>> > >> Your suggestion works against the built-in assumptions of MediaWiki for > >> disambiguations. > >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Pipe_trick > >> > > Then "Gary, WMF"? > > > > > >> Nemo > > Removing the affiliation from the name itself and adding it as a group > would allow the mediawiki to format the name and group in a way that > makes sense for the given language. Keep to the parentheses for english > and such, do other things for ones where that doesn't work or wouldn't > be the norm. > > -I
Removing the affiliation from the name itself could also help to keep a history of past affiliations and address issues raised by Risker earlier. Gryllida. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
