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Re: [grubstreet] Noobies, anonymous contributions and the front page

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From: Kate L Pugh
Subject: Re: [grubstreet] Noobies, anonymous contributions and the front page
Date: 15:04 on 08 Apr 2003
The plan for Grubstreet Next Generation is to have a field on the edit
form which will be pre-populated with your username if you've set
preferences with cookies, but which you can just type into if you
don't do cookies or are making a quick edit from a machine you've not
set your preferences on yet.  The form field is already implemented on
the grubclone, but the cookies aren't done yet.

> One way of encouraging people is to show the user ID on the front
> page recent changes. Does the RSS feed have this information?

  http://grault.net/cgi-bin/grubstreet.pl?action=rss

has snippets like

        <dc:contributor>
            <rdf:Description wiki:host="195.110.84.xxx" link="http://grault.net/cgi-bin/grubstreet.pl?IvorW">;
                <rdf:value>IvorW</rdf:value>
            </rdf:Description>
        </dc:contributor>

So yes, it is in there.  Earle, over to you... would this be hard to
add?  I think it's a good idea.  I'd like to be able to see at a
glance who's been active recently, so it would make the front page
display much more useful.

> But, if no ID has been set, I think it should not show an ID at all
> - definitely not the IP address, as this looks much too scary :o. It
> could show "Anon." or "Guest user" or somesuch; how about "Guessed
> user" as a kind of in-joke ;).

I like "Guessed User" :)


Kake

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