[Commons-l] Making a home wiki field in user login

[bawolff]

Flo said:
>My additional wish would be a way to contact one time contributers. There
>are several ways to achieve this:
>* Creating a field "home wiki" on the resistration form.
...

How hard could that be? Create a field in the log in page saying ''I
ussually contribute to project x'', preferably this could be done
semi-automatically via referrer headers or wikipedia linking with a
url like http://common.wikimedia.org/wiki/special:userlogin?from=en.wikipedia
. The thing gets automatically filled out, and the user can change it
if he wants. Then when he creates an account, his user page has a
template on it automatically that says, "so and so is usually at foo,
leave a message both here and there". Then if orphanbot [or whatever
you call your bots that send messages] comes a long, sees it, and
leaves a message at both commons and the local wiki.

--bawolff