Author: webmaster
Description:
As we have today ~~~ signs your name encased in square braces to link to your user page.
Adding a fourth tilde (~~~~) signs your name as above, but with the date/time.
A fifth tilde produces the date/time without your username.
I propose another option:
Substitution of your username, but without the square braces for linking.
For example, ~~ (or ~~~~~~) would produce Jamie. No links, no namespace, just my username. This is similar in nature to Bug 4196 , but they were asking for a {{MAGICWORD}} which would be continually rendered on each page call. My suggestion is a one time substitution, exactly in the same method as for ~~~~.
This was brought up in comment #9 of Bug 4196, by Peter Halasz, but no one replied, probably because it was not the same thing as was being considered in that bug. I can foresee no reason whatsoever why this would not be possible. Neither from a technical, nor usage/abuse standpoint.
Probably wouldn't be hard to implement if we stole some of the code from the current handler for ~~~~ with a few modifications.
Any thoughts?
Version: 1.11.x
Severity: enhancement