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(a)revi.pe.kr> wrote:
[[m:Synchbot]] is what you are looking for.
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2015. 2. 21. 오후 5:56에 "Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada" <emijrp(a)gmail.xn--com>-4f21ay07k
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2015-02-21 8:45 GMT+01:00 Pine W
<wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>om>:
> 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?
> *This is an Encyclopedia* <https://www.wikipedia.org/>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock
of
our past,
in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water
we
> must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in
> which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the
broad
fall of
sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do
not
> know.*
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> *—Catherine Munro*
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> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 11:17 PM, MZMcBride <z(a)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:
>
> 1. 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.
2. We're working on a more generalized solution:
<
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Shadow_namespaces
> >.
> Nemo also pointed me toward <
>
> 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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