Congratulations! On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 11:25 AM Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder < [email protected]> wrote:
> Congratulations! This is going to be a wonderful feature, and it wouldn't > have happened without the team's dedication and persistence in the face of > multiple difficulties. I'm so happy that this has been successfully > deployed. > > > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 11:20 AM 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 >> > -- > Sherry Snyder (WhatamIdoing) > Community Liaison, 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
