Remove the "Use global user page" preference from the global user page extension
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	• Niharika
	Feb 27 2018, 6:41 PM

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Problem

There's a few issues around GlobalUserPage and GlobalPreferences.

The option "Use global user page" only seems to appear in Special:GlobalPreferences and not Special:Preferences. Why is that so?
When the global preference is enabled and then disabled, it still seems to be enabled in the sense that the global user page still appears.

Solution

Remove the "Use global user page" preference from the global user page extension

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Remove GlobalPreferences integration	mediawiki/extensions/GlobalUserPage	master	+0 -40

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Resolved	• Niharika	T139145 global disabling of compact language list
Resolved	None	T16950 [Epic] Support global preferences on Wikimedia wikis
Resolved	Samwilson	T188423 Remove the "Use global user page" preference from the global user page extension

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• Niharika triaged this task as Medium priority.Feb 27 2018, 6:41 PM

• Niharika created this task.

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When the global preference is enabled and then disabled, it still seems to be enabled in the sense that the global user page still appears.

This is confirmed to be true. I think as it is it takes deleting the "home" of the page to remove it from all the wikis, and it can then be recreated locally without the global setting.

• Niharika moved this task from New & TBD Tickets to Needs Discussion on the Community-Tech board.Feb 27 2018, 9:19 PM

• Niharika moved this task from Backlog to Defects on the MediaWiki-extensions-GlobalPreferences board.

I talked with @ashley a few days ago and we talked about just dropping the integration outright, it's mostly been superseded by the __NOGLOBAL_ magic word.

Legoktm added a project: GlobalUserPage.Feb 27 2018, 9:23 PM

• TBolliger renamed this task from Sort out issues around global user page and global preferences to Remove the "Use global user page" preference from the global user page extension.Feb 28 2018, 12:42 AM

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Change 415234 had a related patch set uploaded (by Samwilson; owner: Samwilson):
[mediawiki/extensions/GlobalUserPage@master] Remove GlobalPreferences integration

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/415234

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Change 415234 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/GlobalUserPage@master] Remove GlobalPreferences integration

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/415234

Legoktm closed this task as Resolved.Feb 28 2018, 8:27 AM

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Krinkle mentioned this in T101348: GlobalUserPageHooks::onTitleIsAlwaysKnown notably slows down Title::isKnown() calls.Jun 7 2022, 3:58 PM