[Mediawiki-l] Setting user preferences at global level

[Jack Eapen C]

Thanks Jim and Paul for the quick replies. I'm new to MW. Where can I
see all the user options like enotifwatchlistpages,enotifusertalkpages,
etc.?

Also, from Paul's email I understood how to replace the values. But as
Jim said, options like watchcreations is not there in the table by
default and I need to insert?

What's the SQL for that? I'm using phpmyadmin and I cant see values in
blob columns :(

Regards,
 
Jack
 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jim Wilson
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 5:52 PM
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Setting user preferences at global level

Hello Jack,

That information you require is stored in the 'user_options' column of
the
'user' table in your database.  It's a blob containing a newline
separated
list of keyword/value pairs.  It looks something like this (lines
removed
for brevity):

-----------------------------
quickbar=1
underline=2
...
enotifwatchlistpages=0
enotifusertalkpages=1
enotifminoredits=0
enotifrevealaddr=0
...
language=en
searchNs0=1
-----------------------------

Regarding "Email me when watchlist pages change": the particular field
you're looking for (I believe) is 'enotifwatchlistpages', which you'd
want
to set to 1 for all users.

Regarding "Add pages I create to my watchlist": the field you want is
'watchcreations', which should also be set to 1.  Unlike
'enotifwatchlistpages', this value is not in the auto-generated
user_options
blobs by default - so you'll need to add a line for it.

Hope this helps!

-- Jim R. Wilson (jimbojw)

On 6/14/07, Jack Eapen C <jackec at suntecgroup.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi
>
> Our wiki is running over the intranet. Authentication is done via LDAp
> plugin.
> How can we set the preferences for all users at one go- like "Add
pages I
> create to my watchlist", "Email me when pages in my watchlist
changes", etc.
> to true for all users at one go?
>
> Also I want to treat all emailids as verified, without the
verification
> process. How can that be achieved?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jack Eapen C
> SunTec Knowledge Centre
>
>
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