Topic on Talk:New requirements for user signatures/Flow

Subst is now totally useless because it cannot be used to provide the required links to user and talk pages. -- ◄ David L • discuter ► 16:39, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

Originally posted by DavidL at Talk:New requirements for user signatures/en

@DavidL "it cannot be used to provide the required links to user and talk pages." is incorrect. You can still substitute a template as your signature, provided that the post-substitution text complies with the technical requirements.

The added requirements around substitution refer to uses of substitution that cause the page text to change in subsequent edits after the signed edit. See phab:T230652.

So there is a bug because it doesn't work.

Works for me.

Thanks for replies. I found why it doesn't worked for me: I was using user namespace in French "Utilisateur". Sorry for this.

But the error message was about the missing link to user page and talk page. It would be more helpful to report error about the non-existence of the page used in subst, to figure out what is the problem.

I think it'd be most helpful if MediaWiki.org recognized all the languages, instead of insisting that its namespaces be written in English. :-)