[Pmwiki-users] Author tracking questions
Christian Ridderström
chr
Sat Jan 31 16:46:07 CST 2004
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> I finally have some author tracking integrated into PmWiki; you can
> try it out at http://www.pmichaud.com/work/beta/pmwiki.php.
>
> In keeping with my standard development practice, I've gone for a
> simple but flexible implementation for the time being and will integrate
> important features as they are identified. Thus, the current version
> simply provides a box in the edit form where a person can enter his/her
> name, and it stores the author information with each revision
> of each page. It also saves the author name in a cookie on the user's
> browser for thirty days (configurable).
>
> A few questions for the group:
>
> * What should be the limitations on author names? So far I think
> that at minimum we can allow letters, digits, hyphens, spaces, and
> underscores--basically the same as a freelink. Is there anyone
> that feels that limiting author names to this set is too restrictive?
> Do we need to allow other characters such as periods and commas?
Does the letters above include '???' etc?
> * What other items besides page revisions need to track/list authorships?
Maybe track who uploads what?
>
> * What other author-related features should PmWiki support? If author
> names can be easily translated into FreeLinks then PmWiki could
> automatically generate links to user pages (e.g., in a 'Users' WikiGroup).
It'd be nice if '-- Christian' at the end of a line would automatically
link to say Users.Christian.
/Christian
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