Help talk:Signatures

Repost

How does a wiki owner configure ~~~~ to, by default, also provide a link to the user's talk page? I believe enwiki is set up to do this. Thanks, Tisane 04:16, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

07:42, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Preload

Can someone tell me a way how i get a raw ~~~~ in a preloaded pagetext so that in the best case an user just has to press 'save' on that preloaded page? Is this possible without an extension? May be it is possible there is a way to make a '<nowiki>' for exact the savingtime - if you understaind what I mean? Thx --RaZe 15:48, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

07:42, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Do redlinks lead to eyestrain?

In my opinion the redlinks on this page look crappy hence I created a Username page. I would welcome feedback, as someone will probably want to delete the page as a kind of automatic reaction, and maybe people will agree that this page looks quite better with the link in blue. It is primarily a matter of GUI aesthetics, but they say that deer are color blind and perhaps also some Mediawikians (WikiMedians) are, as well. Geofferybard 22:33, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

07:44, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

signature dislike?

In the section "Customized Signatures", what is meant by "Please note that striking signatures are often disliked by other users."?

To me the word 'striking' has a meaning something like 'you would take special notice of' as in "The CEO was a strikingly handsome man." Are 'other users' jealous of the beauty of the 'striking signature'? Or is 'striking' intended to convey 'gaudy, garish, overdone'?

I don't have experience with the likes/dislikes of 'other users' to know what is unacceptable in a signature. Perhaps this could be expanded upon?

--Ehatherley 18:33, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

07:45, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Yes that's "striking" as in "gaudy, garish, overdone".

It's all a matter of personal taste of individual users (although on some wikis I suppose an administrator might enforce rules about it).

For example my personal taste tells me that all custom signatures are silly and annoying, but clearly that's not a view shared by everyone :-) Harry Wood (talk) 15:01, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Out of date

This page is currently out of date. Since [rev:99404 rev:99404] (and [rev:100002 rev:100002]), there's now a "(talk)" link by default. MZMcBride (talk) 21:01, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Templates

How can someone add a template to their signature without having it automatically adding the SUBST: to it (or bypass it even if it is added works too). Peckham33 08:04, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

I'll answer your question with a question: Eugh! Why would anyone want to do such a thing? Harry Wood (talk) 15:02, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Eugh! Why not?

In our corporate wiki we would like to have a Template:Comment that adds a simple box with a special "comment" format on any given article, and we'd like to have a signature appended to it. Something like:

{{comment|This should be reviewed by the legal department!}}

Most our users have a hard time with wiki syntax so making it simple would be much better than asking everybody to "remember to sign all your comments" (this is how we operate today and, well, most people never sign).

We often nest comments like this:

{{comment|This should be reviewed by the legal department! : {{comment|yes, we are looking into it!}} : {{comment|also submit to marketing after you are done... : {{comment| ok, will do}} : }} : }} :

Before anyone says anything, no, we do not like to use discussion pages, since we want these comments visible in the main page.

Any thoughts on this would be very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance... Rbirmann (talk) 21:50, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

The original question was about adding a template to a signature.

You're saying on your corporate wiki people forget to sign, so you're using a template instead of a signature. Did you have a different question about doing that? Did you want to ask how to add a signature to a template? (That's the other way round from what the original question was ...and a more sensible thing to want to do) Harry Wood (talk) 13:18, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

Linking to a stylesheet within a signature?

Is it possible to link to a css stylesheet from within the signature? If I put "{{#css:/wiki/user:myname/signature.css}}" then it doesn't apply the stylesheet and if I do <link rel="stylesheet" href="mysite.com/wiki_style.css"> then it says "html errors" (I assume because stylesheets are only supposed to be referenced inside of <head>. Any help? 76.121.93.40 05:26, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

how can i make my signature unique?

how can i make my signature unique Taylor321123 (talk) 16:29, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Automatic signature on modified page?

Would it be able to have a parameter showing the last user modifying the page much like the information on "View history" on the actual page?

I would like to include it in my infobox like

{{Infobox

|LastModifiedBy = SignatureOfTheLastEditedVersion

}} Blazyb (talk) 15:15, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

You can display the name of the last user that edited the page with {{REVISIONUSER}}, but not the signature of that user (in case the user has a custom one). See Help:Magic words#REVISIONUSER Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 19:42, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Default date format in signature timestamp

It seems odd to me that MediaWiki imposes a European dating format on all signatures. Does anyone know how to change the timestamp for signatures so that it uses ISO 8601? For example, is there some setting that can be imposed through the LocalSettings.php file?

Instead of:

07:00, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

I would like to have:

07:00, 2016 August 13 (UTC) Abhidevananda (talk) 06:37, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

There doesn't seem to be any setting for that. However it seems sensible to allow it to be configurable in LocalSettings.php similar to $wgAmericanDates but having full control over the date format, at least for signatures. Feel free to fill a task about that Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:50, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. I went to Phabricator and did a search. No one seems to have talked about this. But when I wanted to create a task, it seems I need to create a fresh account there. Frankly, I lost interest at that point. I don't have the time to follow up on this. And if no one else is interested, then it's likely to be a long time before this relatively simple and sensible change is implemented. And I guess I'll just wait. Abhidevananda (talk) 13:52, 19 August 2016 (UTC)