Hello all,
I'm happy to announce that GlobalPreferences
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:GlobalPreferences> is now
available on all Wikimedia wikis. This project came out of the Wishlist
Survey in December 2016 (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results). It
was #4 on the list. The Community Tech team (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech) has worked for over 14
months, well past the yearly deadline, to deliver on it. This is one of the
most important projects this team has ever undertaken.
You can enable Global Preferences from *Preferences > Set your global
preferences* under your User Profile. You can also set per-wiki exceptions
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:GlobalPreferences#Local_exceptions>
for
each global preference.
This has been a long-desired feature (with the earliest known ticket dating
back to July 2008 -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T16950). I'd like to
give a shout out to Kunal Mehta (Legoktm), Sam Wilson and Max Semenik for
all their hard work that went into this project.
You can read more about the genesis of the project on the project page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Global_preferences
You can find more information about how to use GlobalPreferences on the
Help page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:GlobalPreferences
Questions and comments are welcome on the discussion page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Extension:GlobalPreferences
If there is a project you deeply care about and would like our team to work
on, please remember to submit a proposal for it during the next Wishlist
survey (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2018_Community_Wishlist_Survey)
scheduled to take place in November 2018. Make sure to let your friends at
Wikimania know about it too. :)
Thanks!
--
Niharika
Product Manager
Community Tech
Wikimedia Foundation