[Pmwiki-users] Re: Author tracking questions

John Feezell JohnFeezell
Sun Feb 1 13:35:51 CST 2004


I'm wondering ... what would be a minor change?  Perhaps what I would 
consider
to be minor would not be minor to someone else.

/JF

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:19:46 -0700, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> 
wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 08:46:46PM +0100, Christian Ridderstr??m wrote:
>> > What should PmWiki do if someone doesn't fill in the author 
>> field--should
>> > it return them to the edit page with a note of some sort that the 
>> author
>> > field is required?  (Of course this would need to be optional.)
>>
>> I guess one alternative would be to have a checkbox called:
>> 	[ ] I'm an anonymous coward
>
> Or, one could just put that in the note itself--"If you're an anonymous
> coward, just enter 'anonymous'".   :-)
>
>> Speaking of checkboxes, I think there should also be a checkbox for:
>>
>> 	[ ] This is a minor change, don't track this change.
>
> Well, all changes have to be tracked, otherwise the ability to restore
> pages to previous versions gets messed up.  But what can be changed
> the display of the page history output--it could suppress those
> changes that are marked as minor.  This might mean that the remaining
> changes don't appear entirely consistent with each other, but I can
> live with that.  (Yes, I know that PmWiki could potentially combine
> the minor changes together to remove the inconsistencies, but that's
> just a bit more work than I'm wanting to do at the moment...).
>
>> > Actually, for now I've done [[$LastModifiedBy]], to remain
>> > consistent with [[$LastModified]] and [[$LastModifiedHost]].
>> > PmWiki internally sets the $Author global variable to be the name of 
>> the
>> > person currently editing/browsing pages.
>>
>> These directives sounds good to me, although it's of course confusing 
>> that
>> the internal variable has a completely different name...
>
> Not really--they represent different things.  $LastModifiedBy identifies
> who last edited the document in question, while $Author indicates who
> is currently editing/viewing the document.  I suppose I could use
> $LastModifiedAuthor or $LastAuthor, but somehow $LastModifiedBy "reads
> better" to me.
>
> Pm
>



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