Commons:Podpisy

Signing your postsontalk pagesisrequired, and facilitates discussion by helping identify the author of a particular comment. Other users can then navigate to a talk page and address their comments to the specific, relevant user(s). Discussion is an important part of collaborative editing, because it helps all users to understand the progress and evolution of a work.

To sign and date a post, type four tilde characters (~~~~) or click the signature button in your edit toolbar at the end of your post. When the page is saved, these characters will be replaced with your username (with a link to your user page), a link to your user talk page, and a time stamp, like this:

Wikimedia Commons allows users to customize their signatures in their preferences, but a few rules exist to avoid disruption. The signature must unambiguously identify the author of a comment and must link to the user page, the user talk page or the user's contributions. The customized signature should be designed in a way that does not impair the readability of the page. If nicknames are used, make sure they can be attributed to a specific user. Forging signatures or deliberately concealing one's own identity will not be accepted.

Transclusionsoftemplates and parser functions in signatures (like those which appear as {{User:Name/sig}}, for example) are forbidden. There are several reasons for this:

• Signature templates are vandalism targets, and will be forever, even if the user leaves the project.

Simple text signatures, which are stored along with the page content and use no more resources than the comments themselves, avoid these problems.

Images of any kind must not be used in signatures for the following reasons:

• they are an unnecessary drain on server resources, and could cause server slowdown

• they are potentially distracting from the actual message

One possible alternative is to use Unicode characters instead.

Itis recommended that active Commons users with usernames that do not use the Latin alphabet (for example, Arabic, Chinese, or Hebrew usernames) add a Latin transliteration, translation, or nickname to their signatures (via Preferences → section “Signature” → options Signature: and Treat signature as wikitext (without an automatic link to your user page)). This makes it easier for users not familiar with those scripts to recognise and interact with such users. Similarly, users with Latin alphabet usernames who regularly interact with users of another script (such as Japanese), are encouraged to add a version of their username in that script.

Example 1: ریلکه talk (Example)
Example 2: Example talk (ریلکه/里尔克/リルケ)

In signatures of users with usernames in Arabic, Hebrew or other right-to-left scripts, the presence of text in both directionalities causes problems in some browsers. An example of such a signature is

End of comment مثال (talk) 0:00, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

This can be resolved by adding a left-to-right mark or LRM (‎) after the link to the user's page:

In the "Signature" section of your preferences, you can change your signature to include a left-right mark. If your comment itself is in a right-to-left script, it may be necessary to precede your signature with another LRM (otherwise part of the signature will be displayed before the comment).