Thanks a lot! The job the developers did is awesome, and the feature is extremally helpfull! Still, there is a bug to be deployed, T195288, so the Global Preferences will work well from this Thursday evening, depends on your wiki group. Wait just a little. :-) Igal (User:Ikhitron)
2018-07-10 21:19 GMT+03:00 Niharika Kohli <[email protected]>: > Hello all, > > I'm happy to announce that GlobalPreferences > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:GlobalPreferences> is now > available on all Wikimedia wikis. This project came out of the Wishlist > Survey in December 2016 ( > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results). > It > was #4 on the list. The Community Tech team ( > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech) has worked for over 14 > months, well past the yearly deadline, to deliver on it. This is one of the > most important projects this team has ever undertaken. > > You can enable Global Preferences from *Preferences > Set your global > preferences* under your User Profile. You can also set per-wiki exceptions > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:GlobalPreferences#Local_ > exceptions> > for > each global preference. > > This has been a long-desired feature (with the earliest known ticket dating > back to July 2008 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T16950). I'd like to > give a shout out to Kunal Mehta (Legoktm), Sam Wilson and Max Semenik for > all their hard work that went into this project. > > You can read more about the genesis of the project on the project page: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Global_preferences > > You can find more information about how to use GlobalPreferences on the > Help page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:GlobalPreferences > > Questions and comments are welcome on the discussion page: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Extension:GlobalPreferences > > If there is a project you deeply care about and would like our team to work > on, please remember to submit a proposal for it during the next Wishlist > survey (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2018_Community_Wishlist_Survey) > scheduled to take place in November 2018. Make sure to let your friends at > Wikimania know about it too. :) > > Thanks! > -- > Niharika > Product Manager > Community Tech > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > 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
