[dokuwiki] Re: Patch to make configurable display of user that made changes
- From: Andy Webber <dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:16:10 +0100
Guy Brand wrote:
Andy Webber wrote:
This patch adds a configuration parameter that lets an admin decide
whether to display the login name, full name or e-mail address of the
person that made an edit (on the page at bottom right, on Recent Changes
Let's be pragmatic. No one serious will want to display email
addresses. Login name are computer centric. I'd suggest to
replace the login name by the full name? It's more meaningful
for humans.
I understand your point; but let me expand on my use-case a little.
I agree that use of e-mail address would be rare, but it is actually
what I want for the instance I manage. Amongst my target audience
(currently around 100 contributors from a total pool size of around
85,000), e-mail address is actually the most recognisable unique
distinguishing thing. Login name is not recognisable as it is machine
generated on a central Single Sign-On system. Full name can be ambiguous
(because for SSO it doesn't need to be unambiguous). But e-mail address
is widely used on other internal systems so is the most distinguishing
and most recognised "name" within my pool of users.
My site is purely internal ("behind the firewall") so no risk of address
harvesting. I also have a large user community that includes quite a few
people that have not bought into the whole Wiki Way and are, well, too
/scared/ to make edits and or add comments to a page that are instantly
visible to everyone. Such people are more inclined to e-mail a page
author/editor than to get in there and edit the page; they don't do
Facebook and that whole Web2.0 thing. So I want a mailto: link so that
they don't have to look a name up in the corporate directory and then
potentially have to resolve ambiguities to find the e-mail address when
the wiki already has the e-mail address internally.
Cheers
Andy
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