On 9/30/14, Brion Vibber <bvib...@wikimedia.org> 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 <bvib...@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 <
>> ebernhard...@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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Would this mean that if people had a fancy sig, and they changed it,
it would automatically update everywhere with this magic tag instead
of just applying to new signatures? (Which might be cool)
Downside to that you might have some tricky issue where people change
their sig after the fact to be something malicious (For some
definition of malicious), and then all the old sigs change without an
edit to track it and generally be a vehicle for mass vandalism.
(Didn't that use to be an issue on /. ?)
--bawolff
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