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

[bawolff]

That's what I meant. You have the field, and it automatically (through
js magic?) puts a template on your userspace which the image warning
bots recognize.

-bawolff
On 2/12/07, Cool Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com> wrote:
> Idea is nice, but we could use categories/userpages for that. Dont forget,
> we are just another wiki.
>    - Cool Cat
>
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> On 2/10/07, bawolff < bawolff+wn at gmail.com> 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
> >
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