I could be easily preference of users to pick if they want to use global settings or override it, should be very easy to implement

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoekstra@gmail.com wrote:

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Ole Palnatoke Andersen palnatoke@gmail.com wrote:

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Hi!

I would love to be able to manage my settings in one place - skins, language, gender etc. - rather than having to guess which option is which in a foreign language where I may even have chosen Cologne Blue in some distant past...

I have found no way in the current setup to do so. Am I overlooking something?

Regards, Ole

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I think that last time a saw this discussed, it was rejected on the base of site-specific gadgets and people who have different preferences on different projects.

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On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Thomas Gries mail@tgries.de wrote:

see open issue https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14950 and the bugs marked as duplicates to it. Global preferences importance = high

Thanks. I'll just sit over in the corner impatiently, then :-)

It would be better if user could override it on local wiki, or kept using global one, per project

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Andrew Garrett agarrett@wikimedia.org wrote:

I wrote it once upon a time (in about 2009). It was never reviewed, and I could never find a sensible way to set up an interface for it. Not all preferences are transferrable, not everybody wants any shared preferences at all. I thought about using a whitelist and a single opt-in/out option, but the way I implemented it was a single opt-in/out for all preferences.

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Ole Palnatoke Andersen <palnatoke@gmail.com

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wrote:

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Hi!

I would love to be able to manage my settings in one place - skins, language, gender etc. - rather than having to guess which option is which in a foreign language where I may even have chosen Cologne Blue in some distant past...

I have found no way in the current setup to do so. Am I overlooking something?

Regards, Ole

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On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:

On 15/04/12 21:47, Petr Bena wrote:

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It would be better if user could override it on local wiki, or kept using global one, per project

He could now. Preference system have been rewritten since that time.

*I* rewrote the preference system, and my proposed patch for global preferences was part of that package. It was reverted, mostly to ease review load. I think that's pretty much what I did when I implemented it (I had a local flag to disable global preferences).