https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22516

--- Comment #17 from WhatamIdoing <[email protected]> ---
>> I want what you see at
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:PleaseStand/User_info
>
> And you can easily have that by installing the user script. :-) 

If the script worked at all of the WMF wikis, then you'd be right.  But it
doesn't, and I don't know how to fix it.  

Even if it did work, having each person who wants to have this information
manually install it individually—at each of a couple dozen wikis per
user—doesn't sound like an efficient solution.


I don't think that it makes sense to have an opt-out for individual users:  if
I'm blocked or an admin, or I've made ten thousand edits, then there's no sense
in me being able to "hide" that public information from you.  The information
is readily available.  If they don't want their gender known, then they
shouldn't set it in Special:Preferences, but in gendered languages (i.e., not
English), few people object to this, and many would approve of being addressed
correctly more often.  

I think it would be okay to have it be an opt-in for the viewing user, though;
if I believe I might be biased by seeing the age of someone's account, then I
might choose not to enable it.  I suspect that turning it off isn't going to be
a popular choice, and it's probably the sort of thing that could be suppressed
in CSS if it were really important to an individual user, so a prefs setting is
probably not needed.

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