YAY! SO EXCITING!
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 2:20 PM Niharika Kohli <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Wmfall mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
