Pm Wiki versions 0.6 and later provide support for tracking authors of edits. By default the edit form provides an "Author:" field where a person editing a page can record his/her name with the edit being performed. Author names are limited to letters, numbers, underscores, and hyphens--basically the same characters allowed in a FreeLink. Authorship of edits can then be viewed via the Page History command for any page.

Within the [Recent Changes]? pages, author names become links to "profile pages" where authors can store information about themselves. By default these pages are stored in the "Profiles/" Wiki Group, but this can be changed by a site administrator to be a different group by setting the $AuthorGroup variable in config.php.

One can use the {{~name}} markup to refer to an author's profile page.

At present PmWiki 0.6 does not have built-in support for authenticating author names via a login (i.e., associating author names with a password). This capability may be added in a future release.

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