Dear designers and other stakeholders,<br><br>Your input on the following please. If at all possible, please use the bug -- <a href="https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/43960">https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/43960</a> -- for feedback.<br>
<br>MediaWiki has a feature that allows JavaScript to set arbitrary user preferences starting with &quot;userjs-&quot;. They are currently in no way exposed in the user interface. The bug requests &quot;<span id="summary_alias_container"><span id="short_desc_nonedit_display">Arbitrary userjs- preferences should be shown in the GUI, with the possibility of clearing them one-by-one&quot;.<br>
<br><a href="https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/48576/">https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/48576/</a> contains a patch set by Tyler that &quot;adds two new buttons to the reset form of Special:Preferences that allow users to reset only registered site settings or only userjs- custom settings. The main reset button still resets all settings as it has always done.&quot;<br>
</span></span><br clear="all">We know that our preferences can be very confusing. Adding two more 
buttons to &quot;do stuff to it&quot; could potentially increase user confusion. I
 have added Brandon, Munaf and Pau to this patch set as reviewers and I added them as a CC to the bug.<br><br>Before we are going in a direction with our Special:Preferences that may be contrary to where (a) Wikimedia&#39;s designers want to go, or (b) could increase user confusion, I think it is wise to gather some opinions on this issue, and possibly the wider issue of preferences, that James Forrester[1] at one point indicated he would be taking up as a project, but seems be have stalled since then.<br>
<br>Thanks for your input!<br><br>[1] <a href="https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/27258/">https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/27258/</a> (bottom comment states &quot;[..] we&#39;re waiting on availability of someone in Product (possibly me) to 
work out a socialisation plan for informing the community of our intent 
to significantly simplify preferences.&quot;<br><br>-- <br>Siebrand Mazeland<br>Product Manager Language Engineering<br>Wikimedia Foundation<br><br>M: +31 6 50 69 1239<br>Skype: siebrand<br><br>Support Free Knowledge: <a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate" target="_blank">http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate</a>