Hi,
The Community Tech team are working on global preferences, to make it
possible to set preferences for all Wikimedia wikis instead of for
each one individually (which you’ll still be able to do – global
preferences will be optional). We're now investigating how important
it is to override global preferences locally, which would mean you set
a preference for almost all wikis but still have different settings on
one or a few wikis. Maybe because you’re more active on one wiki,
maybe because you edit in different ways there. The reason we're
asking is that this is technically complicated. We're now looking for
feedback:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Tech/Global_preferences
We've had this in Tech News, on wikimedia-l, posted on some Village
Pumps* (dependent on languages I and a couple of folks I pinged speak
well enough, really – English, German, French, Dutch, Swedish,
Italian). If you think folks in your local wiki community might have
missed this and would like to have opinions, please spread the word
there and ask them to comment on Meta (in English or, if they're not
comfortable doing so, in a language they speak better).
One of my English posts is here, if you'd like a template:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Global_pre…
Things you might want to stress: a +1 is good, it shows more people
need this; global preferences are optional, so even without exceptions
you won't have to have the same settings on all wikis, it's far better
if they reply on Meta than locally, as we can only take it into
account if we see it.
* Or equivalents thereof
//Johan Jönsson
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