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The signature in a Wiki is used to assign discussionposts to their authors.

Generate

The Wiki software generates automatically such a signature out of a (freely definable) part of a name and a time stamp, when you write a certain character sequence at the end of your own post:

Usually you will put two divis in front of the character sequenz, so that everyone will know, that a signature follow: --~~~~

Missing signature

Always sign your own posts in a discussion

Do you find an post without signature, with help of the History of the discussion you can identify, who has written the post, then use Template:Sig to add his signature. (More information how to use the template at Template:Sig)

You can also use Template:SigT to add the time stamp, if it's important (e.g. for fair market value).

Customize signature

thumb|250px|How I set up a signature? The Wiki System usually includes the username, linked to the userpage, as name of the signature. This part you can modify after your fancy, e.g. you can add a link to your user discussionpage.

In addition you can define any namepart for the signature on the specialpage Preferences under "User profile" in the box "'Signature'", if the option (checkbox) "reat signature as wikitext (without an automatic link)" (framed red in picture) is activated. For example: the following source code

[[User:Exampleuser|Exampleuser]] [[User talk:Exampleuser|^Discu]]

would create following signature:

--Exampleuser ^Discu 13:13, 8. Apr 2006 (CEST)