Problem with signature cleaning
>Yet this works OK on Wikipedia. Can anyone help?
Well $wgCleanSignatures is set to true on Wikipedia, so there is your first difference.
So you can set the sig to something fancy in your preferences, you can use this fancy sig on pages with ~~~~ and then randomly it gets set back to the default?
After it gets back to the default sig, does only ~~~~ show the default, or does it also show the default in the signature field of Special:preferences?
In some circumstances, illegal input in the signature field will set it back to default, but you usually have to put some rather weird stuff in it for that to happen (unclosed XML tags, or a sig longer than manual:$wgMaxSigChars for example) and it'd happen instantly, not after a time delay.
Bawolff - thanks for this. I switched $wgCleanSignatures to true and the same thing happened, after one hour. I wonder if it is to do with our load balancing, that we have some kind of caching problem.
You wrote: "So you can set the sig to something fancy in your preferences, you can use this fancy sig on pages with Robinson weijman 09:15, 15 March 2011 (UTC) and then randomly it gets set back to the default?" Yes, that is pretty much it.
To answer your second question: in my preferences I write:
[[User:MyName|<span style="color:lightseagreen">My Name</span>]] ([[User talk:MyName|<span style="color:lightseagreen">Talk</span>]])
My signature on a talk page is therefore:
--[[User:MyName|<span style="color:lightseagreen">My Name</span>]] ([[User talk:MyName|<span style="color:lightseagreen">Talk</span>]]) <time date stamp>
After one hour, the preference reverts to:
My Name
And my signature becomes:
--My Name <time date stamp>
