Two suggestions to improve the "MediaWiki Userpage" field in user profiles:
- "MediaWiki Username" as title
- username linking to user page instead of barebones link
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| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | • mmodell | T541 Polish "MediaWiki Userpage" field in user profiles | |||
| Resolved | • mmodell | T547 MediaWiki login for Phabricator produces broken links for Wikimedia profiles with URL encoded characters | |||
| Declined | • mmodell | T903 Do not show "MediaWiki Userpage" on Phabricator profile if value is "Unknown" |
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Note that current links appear double percent-encoded so they're broken for user names containing non-"basic" characters. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Fan/ for an example.
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Good catch, @liangent!
I'm proposing better formatting of the URL at T542, but this problem here is more important since the resulting link points to a "Bad title" page in mediawiki.org.
Hopefully the same fix can solve the link and the presentation?
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The URL link looks great!
If you can change "Userpage" for "Username" it will be perfect.
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http://i.imgur.com/8Xe4UOy.png not nice; I initially read "sherpa" (usually not considered nice either).
Just shorten to "User page".
"User page" without any context is also confusing, especially when you see that in a (Phabricator) user page. Since we can customize that field (as a last resort using localization, what about "Wikimedia"?
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"User page" without any context is also confusing, especially when you see that in a (Phabricator) user page.
The phabricator profile must not be considered a userpage, or people might start thinking they can/should add information about themselves on phabricator instead of the real, on-wiki user page.
The word "Wikimedia" wouldn't improve the situation, because, 1) we already are on a wikimedia.org domain; 2) mediawiki.org is not a wikimedia.org domain and one might expect "Wikimedia" as "Wikimedia Meta-Wiki" or other wikimedia.org domain.
If a specifier is deemed absolutely needed, you can reverse the order: intead of "MediaWiki userpage", "Userpage on MediaWiki" or better "Userpage on-wiki".
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I'm not entirely sure what this task is requesting.
The field currently is labeled MediaWiki User and the link is in the following format:
<a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:$Username">$Username</a>
Anyone care to weigh in on what changes are desired? Or perhaps this is no longer a valid issue?