You can of course always counter-over-ride your global JS/CSS locally - the
composite rule would presumably be changed to:

1. file,
2. site
3. skin,
*. global-user
4. local-user

… - so you could fix local incompatibilities.

J.



On 5 March 2013 09:14, Isarra Yos <zhoris...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Not rubbish - that would be quite useful. The only problem is it would be
> a somewhat limited use case. Many users never go near their css/js, so it
> would just be another checkbox for them to ignore, and those who do use
> global css/js would just as likely have wider scope issues than that - only
> works on english projects, only applies where they have rollback, or don't
> have rollback, etc - and at that point it would be a lot easier and more
> effective for them to just add a check to the particular script/css rule
> that it is on an applicable project before it runs.
>
> Although that does assume the user actually understands what they're
> putting in their user css/js files.
>
>
> On 05/03/13 13:43, Paul Selitskas wrote:
>
>> I may be saying rubbish, but...
>>
>> I think we should have a checkbox in Preferences where we can switch off
>> global JS and CSS for the wiki where this checkbox is set/unset. Let's
>> imagine I have a script which fits well for every project but Wikidata.
>> Then I go to the preferences and just disable the global script in
>> Wikidata.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 4:00 AM, James Forrester <jforres...@wikimedia.org
>> >**wrote:
>>
>>  On 4 March 2013 14:59, Krenair <kren...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 04/03/13 22:57, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone looked at allowing a user to have global CSS and JS across
>>>>> all WMF wikis?
>>>>>
>>>>> I know you can hack it with a mw.loader.load on all the wikis you use,
>>>>> but it would be useful if CentralAuth had it built in.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a bug for this?
>>>>>
>>>> It seems so, yes: 
>>>> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/**r/7274<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/7274>
>>>>
>>>> Bug: 
>>>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.**org/13953<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/13953>
>>>>
>>> Yes, it would be really lovely to get this enhancement fulfilled
>>> (either with that or new code); it's now on the backlog for "admin
>>> tools development"[*].
>>>
>>> (I speak conflicted, as someone who's used the bot to fake this
>>> globally for my staff account.)
>>>
>>> [*] -
>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/**wiki/Admin_tools_development/**
>>> Roadmap#Other_tasks<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Admin_tools_development/Roadmap#Other_tasks>
>>>
>>> J.
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