[Commons-l] Making a home wiki field in user login

[Cool Cat]

Idea is nice, but we could use categories/userpages for that. Dont forget,
we are just another wiki.
   - Cool Cat

On 2/10/07, bawolff <bawolff+wn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Flo said:
> >My additional wish would be a way to contact one time contributers. There
> >are several ways to achieve this:
> >* Creating a field "home wiki" on the resistration form.
> ...
>
> How hard could that be? Create a field in the log in page saying ''I
> ussually contribute to project x'', preferably this could be done
> semi-automatically via referrer headers or wikipedia linking with a
> url like
> http://common.wikimedia.org/wiki/special:userlogin?from=en.wikipedia
> . The thing gets automatically filled out, and the user can change it
> if he wants. Then when he creates an account, his user page has a
> template on it automatically that says, "so and so is usually at foo,
> leave a message both here and there". Then if orphanbot [or whatever
> you call your bots that send messages] comes a long, sees it, and
> leaves a message at both commons and the local wiki.
>
> --bawolff
>
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