Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:33:36 UTC
As an enhancement, all user preferences should be able to be set as site and language defaults. Currently DefaultSettings.php only has $wgDefaultSkin and maybe $wgAmericanDates. Language.php has $wgDefaultUserOptionsEn, which seems to be incomplete, and could be per user-language.
Note that languages can override the getDefaultUserOptions() method to set additional or override global default settings. Changing subject line to concentrate on the site-specific setting aspect, which I agree would be nice to do cleanly. Shouldn't be too hard to add an override array.
Added $wgDefaultUserSettings array in 1.4: Settings added to this array will override the language globals for the user preferences used by anonymous visitors and newly created accounts. (See names and sample values in languages/Language.php) For instance, to disable section editing links: $wgDefaultUserOptions['editsection'] = 0;
