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

[Florian Straub]

 "Platonides" <Platonides at gmail.com> wrote on Saturday, February 10, 2007 
4:31 PM:

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

Not necessary. We could create a link to a userpage that includes a 
template, the username and project the way we do it at the deletion requests 
...

Regards,

Flo