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This was an interesting comment from WhatamIdoing on bug 67826, so I thought I'd split it out for its own discussion. > Changing default user preferences means overriding the choices of > registered editors who actually want the feature (including thousands of > editors who voluntarily opted-in before MediaViewer was made avaialble > by default). > > It's too bad that MediaWiki doesn't have a good one-click system for > changing prefs, like a "Click here to enable X" button or pop-up. It'd be > so much easier than telling hundreds of users "Go to Special:Preferences, > click to this tab, scroll halfway down, find this item, tick the box, scroll > all the way down, save the page." -------------------------- **Version**: unspecified **Severity**: enhancement **See Also**: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32811 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67883

This was an interesting comment from WhatamIdoing on T69826, so I thought I'd split it out for its own discussion. > Changing default user preferences means overriding the choices of > registered editors who actually want the feature (including thousands of > editors who voluntarily opted-in before MediaViewer was made avaialble > by default). > > It's too bad that MediaWiki doesn't have a good one-click system for > changing prefs, like a "Click here to enable X" button or pop-up. It'd be > so much easier than telling hundreds of users "Go to Special:Preferences, > click to this tab, scroll halfway down, find this item, tick the box, scroll > all the way down, save the page." -------------------------- **See Also**: * {T34811} * {T69883}

This was an interesting comment from WhatamIdoing on bug 67826T69826, so I thought I'd split it out for its own discussion. > Changing default user preferences means overriding the choices of > registered editors who actually want the feature (including thousands of > editors who voluntarily opted-in before MediaViewer was made avaialble > by default). > > It's too bad that MediaWiki doesn't have a good one-click system for > changing prefs, like a "Click here to enable X" button or pop-up. It'd be > so much easier than telling hundreds of users "Go to Special:Preferences, > click to this tab, scroll halfway down, find this item, tick the box, scroll > all the way down, save the page." -------------------------- **Version**: unspecified **Severity**: enhancement **See Also**: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32811* {T34811} https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67883* {T69883}