Could we get uploading privileges allowed for normal users (such as myself) on meta? Otherwise profile photos will require special privileges.
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Hong, Yena lists@revi.pe.kr wrote:
[[m:Synchbot]] is what you are looking for.
-Revi [[User:-revi]] -- Sent from Android -- 2015. 2. 21. 오후 5:56에 "Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada" emijrp@gmail.com님이 작성:
2015-02-21 8:45 GMT+01:00 Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com:
Is it necessary to request deletion of a local user page in order to
get
the global page to be automatically transcluded?
Pine
It seems so. In my case, I created years ago a lot of redirects to my English userpage from many Wikipedia languages, and now I have to request the deletion for all them. Not very useful.
Can we get a special bot task in meta to request userpage deletion in batches?
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On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 11:17 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Hi.
Erwin Dokter wrote:
On 20-02-2015 18:22, Dan Garry wrote:
The feature is currently deployed and working. Simply set up your userpage on Meta, and it'll display on all other wikis! :-)
After having played with it a bit, I must conclude there is one
major
shortcoming.
I like to list my subpages locally, but that is not possible with a global page.
I think what you're saying here is that if your global user page
contains
"{{Special:PrefixIndex/User:Example}}", this transclusion will expand
in
the context of the global wiki, not in the context of the local wiki.
The most annoying thing is that once you create the local user page, the global one is gone forever... until you can get a
local
admin to delete the local copy again.
It would be much more practical if this worked like Commons
description
pages, where one can *add* content to the local description pages in addition to the trancluded page.
Gone forever seems a bit hyperbolic. :-) The use-case being solved
here
most directly is "I don't want to create my user page or a pointer to
my
user page on over 800 wikis." I think the append model is interesting
to
consider, but I think it would likely need to be opt-in, perhaps via interwiki transclusion.
I also don't know why the system is so inflexible in that only one
wiki
can act as the global home wiki. I know there are issues with the
home
wiki flag, but another approach could be in the form of using {{meta:user:Edokter}}, which could point to any project.
Right, you're basically suggesting interwiki transclusion here. This
is
definitely a hard problem to solve, for the context reason alone.
In discussing global user pages, someone privately criticized the implementation with basically the same theme of what you're saying
here.
Namely, that global user pages are only solving a narrow use-case and
that
the more generalized problem of easy content distribution/re-use
still
needs to be addressed. I definitely agree, but here's why I pushed
this
project forward and why I'm happy with where we're headed:
- Perfect is the enemy of the done. We have global user pages today.
If
a
better approach for global user pages comes along in the future,
we
can
switch to using that instead, for sure.
- We're working on a more generalized solution: <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Shadow_namespaces
.
Nemo also pointed me toward <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T66474
which may interest you.
Please share your thoughts and feedback on the wiki or in Phabricator
or
on this mailing list. I think there's consensus that we have a
pattern
of
a problem that we want to solve and any help poking and prodding at
ideas
for solutions to this problem would be most welcome.
MZMcBride
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