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

[Platonides]

bawolff wrote:
> 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

Easy, but it'd involve a change in db fields.