Last modified: 2014-09-23 22:34:11 UTC
Some method of having preferences set on one wiki apply to all would be helpful. This would be especially useful for those working across many wikis, who otherwise must set their preferences on 730+ wikis separately.
For languages, having a single checkbox ("Apply this language preference to all projects") might be nice. Have it reset after you apply it, so you can change individual language preferences later if you'd like.
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Will hopefully implement this as part of the preferences work I'm doing.
Fixed in preferences-work branch.
(In reply to comment #8) > Fixed in preferences-work branch. > This got merged and is currently live on Wikimedia sites, right? I don't see any option to set preferences globally...
(Copied from bug 19951) This request is that now SUL is well established, it is enhanced to be a genuine central account manager for the merged/SUL-ed accounts too. That is, instead of [[Special:MergeAccount]], there is [[Special:Central Account Management]] or the like. This would have 2 tabs (a 3rd was suggested for email address management and confirmation, now withdrawn): Tab #1 -- to view merged accounts and active projects, and demerge selected accounts or add new merged accounts. Tab #2 -- a central preferences tab, which would be the same as the usual [[Special:Preferences]] but on each page buttons "set this as the default for new accounts" and "export changed setting to all merged accounts".
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(In reply to comment #10) > (Copied from bug 19951) > > This request is that now SUL is well established, it is enhanced to be a > genuine central account manager for the merged/SUL-ed accounts too. That is, > instead of [[Special:MergeAccount]], there is [[Special:Central Account > Management]] or the like. > > This would have 2 tabs (a 3rd was suggested for email address management and > confirmation, now withdrawn): > > Tab #1 -- to view merged accounts and active projects, and demerge selected > accounts or add new merged accounts. > > Tab #2 -- a central preferences tab, which would be the same as the usual > [[Special:Preferences]] but on each page buttons "set this as the default for > new accounts" and "export changed setting to all merged accounts". Hi. I dont see any [[Special:Central Account Management]]. Has this proposal gone online?
(In reply to comment #12) > (In reply to comment #10) > > (Copied from bug 19951) > > > > This request is that now SUL is well established, it is enhanced to be a > > genuine central account manager for the merged/SUL-ed accounts too. That is, > > instead of [[Special:MergeAccount]], there is [[Special:Central Account > > Management]] or the like. > > > > This would have 2 tabs (a 3rd was suggested for email address management and > > confirmation, now withdrawn): > > > > Tab #1 -- to view merged accounts and active projects, and demerge selected > > accounts or add new merged accounts. > > > > Tab #2 -- a central preferences tab, which would be the same as the usual > > [[Special:Preferences]] but on each page buttons "set this as the default for > > new accounts" and "export changed setting to all merged accounts". > > Hi. I dont see any [[Special:Central Account Management]]. Has this proposal > gone online? As far as I can see, it's still a proposal and thus not been built yet.
I add bug 25029 as blocker because looks like we're not able to apply a preference to all databases.
(In reply to comment #13) > As far as I can see, it's still a proposal and thus not been built yet. Any idea when this will go online? Side note: Along with the adding of this feature, and the completion of bug 4547, we could also enable a feature where, just like clicking a button to make settings global, clicking a button would update all the user's userpages on all wikis to transclude the user's userpage from Commons...
What is the current status of this feature? Has it gone online? If not, when will it go online?
(In reply to comment #16) > What is the current status of this feature? > > Has it gone online? If not, when will it go online? It hasn't even been written yet.
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what's the status on this? is anyone currently working on it? heard from Andrew Garrett that it was reverted because there was no reasonable UI for it (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/49932) i'd be interested in taking this up as a project for GSoC (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-February/058141.html) thanks
Hi, Jeremias! No, I think no one is working on it - please come into IRC with us and chat about it. Thanks!
I've done some work on this, see [[mw:Extension:GlobalPreferences]]. It's not even close to deployment-ready yet and needs UI love.
(In reply to Kunal Mehta (Legoktm) from comment #22) > I've done some work on this, see [[mw:Extension:GlobalPreferences]]. It's > not even close to deployment-ready yet and needs UI love. legoktm: Now I'm tempted to assign this ticket to you. ;) Out of curiosity, are there long term plans to try getting GlobalPrefs deployed on Wikimedia sites?
In the long term, yes. I don't plan on working on the extension anytime soon though, so assigning the bug to me would probably just end up being cookie licking.