[Pmwiki-users] Re: Re: Authors/Users WikiGroup?

[Christian Ridderström]

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 03:55:48PM -0700, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 04:44:40PM -0600, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 11:37:12PM +0100, Christian Ridderstr??m wrote:
> > > > 'Users' is probably familar to most people... even though a 'User' doesn't 
> > > > necessarily write things, wheras 'Authors', 'Writers' or 'Contributors' 
> > > > typically do.  Although a bit long, I'd probably vote for 'Contributors' 
> > > > because it doesn't specify how you've contributed, just that you have.
> > > 
> > > Ooh, good point.  I like "Contributors" too from that perspective.
> > 
> > Hmm.  I don't like "Contributors" because it's a bit long to type...
> > I'd prefer something shorter.
> 
> I'd prefer shorter too, but isn't part of the point that this will
> rarely need to be typed?  Contributors will just put --Scott and that
> will magically turn into --Contributors/{{Scott}}

I was about to make that point myself..

Just for the record, right now I'm using this markup for signatures:

	-- [[Site/Contributors#Christian Christian]]

where the person's full name is supposed to appear at Site.Contributors 
with an anchor. Compared to simply writing '-- Christian', this is clumsy.

/Christian

-- 
Christian Ridderstr?m                           http://www.md.kth.se/~chr