Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-23 Thread Helder .
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 6:19 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: p.s. re: babel, my absolute favorite use is on Wikidata, where you can add babel templates to your userpage and then get the appropriate fields to add stuff in that language :) I love showing that to people who are

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-23 Thread Helder .
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, Babel templates are replaced by the #Babel functionality... The only problem I have with the Babel functionality on Meta is that they decided to have everything in Green.. However check it out on my

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-22 Thread Emilio J . Rodríguez-Posada
2015-02-21 16:21 GMT+01:00 MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com: Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada wrote: It seems so. In my case, I created years ago a lot of redirects to my English userpage from many Wikipedia languages, and now I have to request the deletion for all them. Not very useful. Not very

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-22 Thread MZMcBride
Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada wrote: I edited/added images and managed bots (generating edit rankings and other) in many Wikipedias. I didn't spammed anything, just had to create the redirect userpages years ago because MediaWiki didn't offered anything better. Indeed. I briefly looked at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-21 Thread Hong, Yena
[[m:Synchbot]] is what you are looking for. -Revi [[User:-revi]] -- Sent from Android -- 2015. 2. 21. 오후 5:56에 Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada emi...@gmail.com님이 작성: 2015-02-21 8:45 GMT+01:00 Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com: Is it necessary to request deletion of a local user page in order to get

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-21 Thread Marielle Volz
Could we get uploading privileges allowed for normal users (such as myself) on meta? Otherwise profile photos will require special privileges. On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Hong, Yena li...@revi.pe.kr wrote: [[m:Synchbot]] is what you are looking for. -Revi [[User:-revi]] -- Sent from

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-21 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 21.02.2015 um 13:14 schrieb Marielle Volz: That's what I was going to do originally, but then I looked at my profile picture on en wiki[1] I saw this message: Do not copy this file to Wikimedia Commons. While the license of this image or media file, uploaded and used on (a) Wikipedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-21 Thread MZMcBride
Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada wrote: It seems so. In my case, I created years ago a lot of redirects to my English userpage from many Wikipedia languages, and now I have to request the deletion for all them. Not very useful. Not very useful is a slightly rude comment to make, in my opinion. You

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-21 Thread Emilio J . Rodríguez-Posada
2015-02-21 8:45 GMT+01:00 Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com: Is it necessary to request deletion of a local user page in order to get the global page to be automatically transcluded? Pine It seems so. In my case, I created years ago a lot of redirects to my English userpage from many Wikipedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-21 Thread Isarra Yos
On 21/02/15 15:21, MZMcBride wrote: Instead of deletion, blanking the user page might be a neat way of triggering the global user page to re-appear (a version of pure wiki deletion). Though, of course, some users might want a 0-byte user page. With interface messages, setting the content to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-21 Thread Erwin Dokter
On 21-02-2015 12:14, Marielle Volz wrote: Could we get uploading privileges allowed for normal users (such as myself) on meta? Otherwise profile photos will require special privileges. We have Commons for that. Meta does not allow non-free or fair-use images anyway. Regards, -- Erwin Dokter

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-21 Thread Marielle Volz
That's what I was going to do originally, but then I looked at my profile picture on en wiki[1] I saw this message: Do not copy this file to Wikimedia Commons. While the license of this image or media file, uploaded and used on (a) Wikipedia contributor(s) user page(s), may be compliant with

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-21 Thread Erwin Dokter
On 21-02-2015 13:14, Marielle Volz wrote: That's what I was going to do originally, but then I looked at my profile picture on en wiki[1] I saw this message: Do not copy this file to Wikimedia Commons. [...] I took that to mean that profile pictures in general were discouraged from being

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-21 Thread Hong, Yena
Well, image upload for userpage use is explicitly permitted on Commons[1], as long as it is used and copyright status is fine. (To get meta uploader right, you need a clear use case, and it is rarely given. Meta does not allow EDP (fair use), so if it is fair use, it cannot be hosted on Commons

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-20 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 9:22 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Nice one! Will anyone be porting all the Babel templates? That's a seriously useful thing that should go there, and they aren't on Meta yet. Eh? I think Babel templates are from last decade. See

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-20 Thread David Gerard
Nice one! Will anyone be porting all the Babel templates? That's a seriously useful thing that should go there, and they aren't on Meta yet. On 19 February 2015 at 01:06, Legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! Global user pages have now been deployed to all public wikis for users

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-20 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Babel templates are replaced by the #Babel functionality... The only problem I have with the Babel functionality on Meta is that they decided to have everything in Green.. However check it out on my profile. Thanks, GerardM On 20 February 2015 at 11:22, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-20 Thread Emilio J . Rodríguez-Posada
Hello, thanks for this, it is a good feature. Does it work for Wiktionary, Wikisource, etc? Does it show the same userpage in any sister project? In that case, a trick to show different content using a switch and the {{SITENAME}} magic word would work? 2015-02-19 2:06 GMT+01:00 Legoktm

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-20 Thread Erwin Dokter
On 20-02-2015 13:07, Gerard Meijssen wrote: Hoi, Babel templates are replaced by the #Babel functionality... The only problem I have with the Babel functionality on Meta is that they decided to have everything in Green.. The content is transcluded, but it's the local CSS that will style that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-20 Thread Adam Wight
Hi Legoktm, Thanks for doing this great work! I tried to follow the instructions at [1], and discovered that GlobalPreferences hasn't been deployed yet, so I don't think it's possible to enable a global user page yet. Please keep us posted when that happens, I'm looking forward to abusing this

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-20 Thread Pine W
Is it necessary to request deletion of a local user page in order to get the global page to be automatically transcluded? Pine *This is an Encyclopedia* https://www.wikipedia.org/ *One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of our past, in which we must delve The

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-20 Thread MZMcBride
Hi. Erwin Dokter wrote: On 20-02-2015 18:22, Dan Garry wrote: The feature is currently deployed and working. Simply set up your userpage on Meta, and it'll display on all other wikis! :-) After having played with it a bit, I must conclude there is one major shortcoming. I like to list my

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-20 Thread Scott MacLeod
Kunal, Erik and All, So great! How will Linked Data be added to, and develop with, these interlingual Global User Pages - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:GlobalUserPage ? Cheers, Scott http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages (planned

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-20 Thread Erwin Dokter
On 20-02-2015 18:22, Dan Garry wrote: The feature is currently deployed and working. Simply set up your userpage on Meta, and it'll display on all other wikis! :-) After having played with it a bit, I must conclude there is one major shortcoming. I like to list my subpages locally, but that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-20 Thread phoebe ayers
Hooray! This is so cool. /goes to edit her meta userpage... -- phoebe p.s. re: babel, my absolute favorite use is on Wikidata, where you can add babel templates to your userpage and then get the appropriate fields to add stuff in that language :) I love showing that to people who are getting

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-19 Thread florian.schmidt.wel...@t-online.de
Yeah, thanks for your work on this Kunal! enwiki: userpage deletion requested dewiki: local userpage deleted :D Best / Freundliche Grüße Florian Schmidt -Original-Nachricht- Betreff: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis Datum: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 02:07:16 +0100 Von

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-19 Thread Petr Bena
: userpage deletion requested dewiki: local userpage deleted :D Best / Freundliche Grüße Florian Schmidt -Original-Nachricht- Betreff: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis Datum: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 02:07:16 +0100 Von: Legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com An: wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-19 Thread MZMcBride
Erik Moeller wrote: Thanks for all _your_ work seeing this through the finish line as well, Kunal. This is a great first step towards better user profile support, and brings all Wikimedia wikis closer together. Absolutely. I'm so proud of the work Legoktm has done and I'm very grateful that he

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-18 Thread Keegan Peterzell
Hi Pine, I'm actually the owner of SUL finalization. It is happening in April. The big messaging, rename schema, and a special page listing users that will be affected is coming in a few days and there will be a big update then. You can always follow along on Phabricator.[1][2] Until then, let

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-18 Thread Pine W
Thanks for the very good news. Dan, can we get an ETA about SUL finalization? Pine On Feb 18, 2015 5:07 PM, Legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! Global user pages have now been deployed to all public wikis for users with CentralAuth accounts. Documentation on the feature is

[Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-18 Thread Legoktm
Hello! Global user pages have now been deployed to all public wikis for users with CentralAuth accounts. Documentation on the feature is available at mediawiki.org[1], and if you notice any bugs please file them in Phabricator[2]. Thanks to all the people who helped with the creation and