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[Aaron Wells <548021@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the feedback, Dirk!

It sounds like the scenario you're describing is, basically, where
students want to share pages with people outside their school, but still
not make the student's identity visible to the general Internet public.

I think we normally tell people to do this through secret URLs. The page
author is still visible to whoever views the secret URL, but you have to
know the secret URL for that. And pages viewed through a secret URL have
a "no crawl" meta tag on top of them that prevents them from being
indexed by search engines, so the secret URL itself remains the only way
to gain access to it as an outsider (unless the student makes the page
public).

Hm, I could see a scenario though like, you want to have students enter
webpages into a public web authoring competition, while still keeping
their names secret out of privacy concerns. You could workaround that by
using group pages for a group with hidden membership, but that could get
unwieldy and it wouldn't allow certain types of page content that can't
be used in group pages, like blog entries (although actually blog
entries always print your full name anyway... ). But in that case, I
think, in order to reduce the possibility of fraudulently creating pages
that look official, it would still make sense for it to say something
like "by a site user" or "by site staff", and the page author should be
visible to staff & admin users.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/548021

Title:
  Option to not have a display name on Views

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Currently all views show a display name. It would be good to have an
  option to just have a view title without 'by display name'.

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