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(a)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.
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1]<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Deficits_of_the_current_preferences_sys…
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