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Provide a Global preference for the Homepage and the help panel
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Most features are available as Global features. it means that you can turn on and off a given feature on all Wikipedias, from any Special:Preferences page.

This task is to decide if we implement this Global Preference feature for:

  • enabling the Homepage
  • redirecting to the Homepage instead of the userpage
  • enabling the help panel

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Trizek-WMF created this task.Sep 15 2021, 1:27 PM
Restricted Application added a project: Growth-Team. · View Herald TranscriptSep 15 2021, 1:27 PM
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kostajh assigned this task to • MMiller_WMF.Sep 15 2021, 6:49 PM
kostajh moved this task from Inbox to Triaged on the Growth-Team board.
kostajh added subscribers: DMburugu, • MMiller_WMF, kostajh.

Assigning to @MMiller_WMF to decide on prioritization (cc @DMburugu).

• MMiller_WMF added a comment.Sep 15 2021, 11:27 PM

@Trizek-WMF -- could you say more about why this is important? Have you heard users ask for it?

Trizek-WMF added a comment.Sep 21 2021, 5:26 PM

@MMiller_WMF, it is not important at all; it is for consistency with other preferences.

Trizek-WMF mentioned this in T292090: Research Spike: Enable Growth features for autocreated accounts (if the user already has Growth features).Sep 30 2021, 11:28 AM
Trizek-WMF mentioned this in T296702: Scale: enable Growth features for existing accounts.Jan 4 2022, 2:45 PM
• Tgr subscribed.Jan 5 2022, 6:36 AM

Don't these exist already?

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Trizek-WMF closed this task as Invalid.Jan 5 2022, 5:05 PM

@Tgr, it seems that I missed it the last time I checked. Thank you!

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