Add nickname to the Contact information

[timbl]

The nickname is short and without spaces and can be used the system in chat message authorship, etc etc,

Typically code could use the domain part of a typical solid user's webid, like foo in foo.inrupt.net., when the nickname is not defined.

foaf:nick has beeen a tradition.

Also cold be used in @mention user input.

(This more going to be used by the system than by other people, so possibly could be dropped from public contact info form, or maybe only occur in the editing version not the read-only version.)

[ewingson]

@timea-solid

this could be the next challenge I dare to tackle. seems to be well overviewable.
although it is already (in parts) implemented. or is this done and we are through with it ?

we have an input form for the nick.
we can ask the user for a nick and if nothing is set, use the domain part (subdomain / username) if nothing is set.

question that arises is where (e.g. in the long chat) would the nick be displayed...

I'll wrap my head and hands upon it (begin with forking contacts pane and identifying the place in the code to add to...)

I haven't been active for a while. case more questions arise, I'll reach out.
can you assign this to me (dunno if I'm able to self-assign...)

[ewingson]

after having a (very quick) look at the spec I suppose it would look like following:

• relates a Person to a nickname:
  foaf:Person foaf:nick literal/string

[ewingson]

or maybe

@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .

#me

a foaf:Person;
foaf:nick "Batman".

[timea-solid]

or maybe

@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .

#me

a foaf:Person;
foaf:nick "Batman".

I like this version.

[ewingson]

as examining everything I wonder how this part of the prob differs from the shortName we already have in use...

[bourgeoa]

Agreed I think it does not differ.
It is not really visible and cannot be updated in the contact-pane

So the issue should be closed and a new one open to something like 'move shortName to a better location' so has to be able to fill in the short name in the contact-pane.