Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi, If we are to have global preferences fine. With the defaults for "preferred math display" or "image size" I have no problem. The offset for time is not usuable and i have user profiles effectively in two time zones; this is confusing
So I agree, create a framework that allows for global preferences and implement the time offset / time zone soonest. Thanks, GerardM
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi, Given that I currently have user profiles on 427 WMF wikis, I will not bother changing settings like my timezone. It is just to much work. Many applications allow you to select the timezone itself and have the offset
to
GMT be a consequence of the timezone selected. An equally good change
would
be to make the timezone part of preferences that are maintained globally
for
a user. Thanks, GerardM
Why the timezone and not the preferred math display or image size? It should be a global preferencing so you could globally set any preference you want to.
I don't think there's anyone who thinks that global preferences would be a bad idea (or if there are, they're a tiny minority). It just hasn't been done yet. Any global preferences system would probably come after a rewrite of the current preferences system[1] as it would probably be done in mostly the same way. Doing it one preference at a time would be rather inefficient.
The main issue is that you may not want the same preferences everywhere. For example, email notification settings, which also has the issue of not being consistent across projects. I may want notification for watchlisted changes on small projects I don't check often, but not for commons and meta, as I check those often. Or you may not want to use UTC on projects that use a different default timezone for signatures and such. So the global preferences would have to be locally overridable.
[1]http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Deficits_of_the_current_preferences_system