From: jmtd Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 13:07:12 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Proposal: convention for signing posts, encourage signing posts, retroactively sign... X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/commitdiff_plain/d8a411b47c904182e7f2068838ac9c993c1cc1da?ds=sidebyside Proposal: convention for signing posts, encourage signing posts, retroactively sign posts on replying --- diff --git a/doc/forum/convention_for_signing_posts_to_ikiwiki.info.mdwn b/doc/forum/convention_for_signing_posts_to_ikiwiki.info.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ad99625f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/convention_for_signing_posts_to_ikiwiki.info.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +I habitually sign my messages (comments, forum posts, discussion pages, or replies to same) on [ikiwiki.info](https://ikiwiki.info), +but not everybody does; especially newcomers might not realise it can be helpful. I think it should be generally encouraged that +we do, and think it would be useful for others to add +signatures to unsigned comments/forum posts/discussion pages/replies in those situations, perhaps at the point of replying to +them. + +But what should a standardised signature look like? I propose the format I am using, namely + + *— (user-name), YYYY-MM-DD* + +Where "user-name" should be the logged-in user or git commit author.name field, if either are defined; that "user-name" +should be a wiki-link to the relevant User page if such is known to exist; and failing that, use the string "unsigned comment"; +and "YYYY-MM-DD" is substituted with the year-month-day at the time of the comment. I don't see the need for a higher +resolution timestamp (always available in the git metadata anyway). + +The signature should be suffixed to the last line of the relevant comment-block (as in this example). + +If there is general support for this idea, we could develop it further and have machine-assisted signatures, a bit like e.g. +Mediawiki with `~~~~`. + +There are probably other similar conventions we should canonicalize, such as how to handle replying inline to someone else's +comment/forum post/discussion pages/reply and what to do with respect to attribution/signature lines in those situations. + +Thoughts? *— [[Jon]], 2021-09-29*