I know of many users having asked for implementing this, but how do _you_ like this ? Shall we notify changes on both pages ?
I have 1.4.1 code ready for allowing old or new behaviour (settable in DefaultSettings). Would be nice to learn, how you think about this. Tom
On Apr 11, 2005 10:02 PM, Thomas Gries mail@tgries.de wrote:
I know of many users having asked for implementing this, but how do _you_ like this ? Shall we notify changes on both pages ?
I'm not sure about this; it's quite nice having the user_talk page be the one unique page capable of alerting you in this way. Sure, people shouldn't be editting your user: page anyway, but that can be dealt with on the watchlist like anything else (and a lot of people have multiple user sub-pages they want to track in this way). And while it might be a message, it might just be someone fiddling, or even editting twice to remove something when they realised it was in the wrong place.
That's just my opinion, though, and not that strongly held, to be honest.
I have 1.4.1 code ready for allowing old or new behaviour (settable in DefaultSettings).
Wouldn't it make more sense to have this as a *per-user* preference, even if the default were set from LocalSettings.php? I don't think this is really an administrative decision so much as, well, a preference... ;)
But obviously, that's more complex, and if most people would feel this to be an improvement, then letting the site admin turn it back off would be fine.
Rowan Collins rowan.collins@gmail.com wrote:
On Apr 11, 2005 10:02 PM, Thomas Gries mail@tgries.de wrote:
I know of many users having asked for implementing this, but how do _you_ like this ? Shall we notify changes on both pages ?
I'm not sure about this; it's quite nice having the user_talk page be the one unique page capable of alerting you in this way. Sure, people shouldn't be editting your user: page anyway, but that can be dealt with on the watchlist like anything else (and a lot of people have multiple user sub-pages they want to track in this way). And while it might be a message, it might just be someone fiddling, or even editting twice to remove something when they realised it was in the wrong place.
I don't know about _messages_ on the user page--I think an edit by another user on one's own user page could be just as likely to be vandalism. I have had to deal with user-page vandalism on one of my own wikis; it is possible that such could go unnoticed for a long time, especially for a user who does not regularly visit the wiki [the edit would scroll off recentchanges quickly, off the default watchlist in a few days, and I don't know about other users, but I rarely visit my own user page].
So I think a message saying "someone has edited your user page" would be somewhat useful. (Though of course the user should still have the option to disable it.)
*Muke!
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