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 <[email protected]> wrote: > [[m:Synchbot]] is what you are looking for. > > -Revi > [[User:-revi]] > -- Sent from Android -- > 2015. 2. 21. 오후 5:56에 "Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada" <[email protected]>님이 > 작성: > > > 2015-02-21 8:45 GMT+01:00 Pine W <[email protected]>: > > > > > 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 languages, and now I have to request > > the deletion for all them. Not very useful. > > > > Can we get a special bot task in meta to request userpage deletion in > > batches? > > > > > > > *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 well of our future,The clear water > > we > > > must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in > > > which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the > broad > > > fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do > > not > > > know.* > > > > > > *—Catherine Munro* > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 11:17 PM, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > 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 subpages locally, but that is not possible with a > > > > >global page. > > > > > > > > I think what you're saying here is that if your global user page > > contains > > > > "{{Special:PrefixIndex/User:Example}}", this transclusion will expand > > in > > > > the context of the global wiki, not in the context of the local wiki. > > > > > > > > >The most annoying thing is that once you create the local > > > > >user page, the global one is gone forever... until you can get a > local > > > > >admin to delete the local copy again. > > > > > > > > > >It would be much more practical if this worked like Commons > > description > > > > >pages, where one can *add* content to the local description pages in > > > > >addition to the trancluded page. > > > > > > > > Gone forever seems a bit hyperbolic. :-) The use-case being solved > > here > > > > most directly is "I don't want to create my user page or a pointer to > > my > > > > user page on over 800 wikis." I think the append model is interesting > > to > > > > consider, but I think it would likely need to be opt-in, perhaps via > > > > interwiki transclusion. > > > > > > > > >I also don't know why the system is so inflexible in that only one > > wiki > > > > >can act as the global home wiki. I know there are issues with the > home > > > > >wiki flag, but another approach could be in the form of using > > > > >{{meta:user:Edokter}}, which could point to any project. > > > > > > > > Right, you're basically suggesting interwiki transclusion here. This > is > > > > definitely a hard problem to solve, for the context reason alone. > > > > > > > > In discussing global user pages, someone privately criticized the > > > > implementation with basically the same theme of what you're saying > > here. > > > > Namely, that global user pages are only solving a narrow use-case and > > > that > > > > the more generalized problem of easy content distribution/re-use > still > > > > needs to be addressed. I definitely agree, but here's why I pushed > this > > > > project forward and why I'm happy with where we're headed: > > > > > > > > 1. Perfect is the enemy of the done. We have global user pages today. > > If > > > a > > > > better approach for global user pages comes along in the future, > we > > > can > > > > switch to using that instead, for sure. > > > > > > > > 2. We're working on a more generalized solution: > > > > < > > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Shadow_namespaces > > > > >. > > > > Nemo also pointed me toward < > > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T66474 > > > > > > > > which may interest you. > > > > > > > > Please share your thoughts and feedback on the wiki or in Phabricator > > or > > > > on this mailing list. I think there's consensus that we have a > pattern > > of > > > > a problem that we want to solve and any help poking and prodding at > > ideas > > > > for solutions to this problem would be most welcome. > > > > > > > > MZMcBride > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
