https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68689
Bug ID: 68689
Summary: User Preference's default options/values should be
automatically marked in the special page itself
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: User preferences
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Web browser: ---
Mobile Platform: ---
Created attachment 16049
--> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=16049&action=edit
Mockup (rough idea) of a potential design
When looking at [[mw:Special:Preferences]], or [[Special:Preferences]], or etc,
it is unclear what options/values are "Default/Recommended".
We should add information to these pages, that automatically updates at each
wiki based on the config files, showing what the defaults are. So that it
doesn't require manually updating the documentation at all the wikis, when
something changes.
Design: I've attached an edited screenshot (rough idea), of what I have in
mind. (But plain black text would be fine)
Example: If someone changes the "default" value for "wmgThumbsizeIndex" in
InitialiseSettings.php - that should update what it says in
Special:Preferences.
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Context/Notes:
* We have (often unmaintained) documentation pages, that rapidly go
out-of-date. eg. [[m:Help:Preferences]] and [[mw:Help:Preferences]] and etc.
This proposed feature would partially solve that.
* If I customize a setting, eg. changing thumbnail-size default from 180->200,
and then the site's default gets changed (as it did from 180->220), then my
customized setting won't get changed (good!) but I won't be likely to ever find
out (bad!).
* There's the "Restore all default settings" button-of-doom which wipes out all
our customizations, and it's currently unclear to users what exactly will get
changed.
Firefox handles this well, in about:config, by automatically indicating which
preferences have been changed by the user -
http://kb.mozillazine.org/images/Fx14aboutconfig.png - if we could add that
somehow, bonus.
(There are more notes at
[[mw:Thread:Project:Support_desk/User_Preference_descriptions_-_Where_stored_%26_changed,_and_where_documented%3F_-_How_to_mark_the_%22defaults%22%3F]]
and related ideas at [[mw:Requests for comment/Redesign user preferences]])
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