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Werdna is currently working on redoing the user preferences system in his preferences-work branch. Once he's done, writing an API module to change preferences should be doable; right now the preferences system sucks too much.

Will be trivially doable in preferences-work branch.

Created attachment 6053 [details]
Half-done patch

This patch is sort of done, but it's broken because you can't call wfMsgExt from API modules.

(In reply to comment #3)
> Created an attachment (id=6053) [details]
> Half-done patch
> 
> This patch is sort of done, but it's broken because you can't call wfMsgExt
> from API modules.
> 

Ignore the profiling changes :/

(In reply to comment #3)
> Created an attachment (id=6053) [details]
> Half-done patch
> 
> This patch is sort of done, but it's broken because you can't call wfMsgExt
> from API modules.
> 

You seem to have forgotten to svn add ApiPreferences.php

Have you got the full "half done" patch Andrew?

Andrew says: "I'm sorry, no."

Lol. I've just realised Bryan you asked Andrew when i was sat next to him. Lol

Comment on attachment 6053 [details]
Half-done patch

Obseleting patch as it's useless :(

*Bulk BZ Change: +Patch to open bugs with patches attached that are missing the keyword*

Bumping this as it would allow for SWMT members and such to set signatures and language globally.

(In reply to comment #11)
> Bumping this as it would allow for SWMT members and such to set signatures and
> language globally.

There is a separate feature request for CentralAuth implementating global preferences so we can set signature, real name, skin, language, anything globally. No need for a preferences-api for that (which would still require someone to write a bot to make a ton of api requests). 

See bug 14950.

-patch since there is no patch currently

I have submitted a change https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#q,I0d6c654a7354ba77e65e338423952a6a78c1150f,n,z for review.