Get rid of Special:UserProfile
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	Feb 25 2015, 6:36 PM

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Special:UserProfile in MobileFrontend does not seem to offer clear advantages over either an editor's own user page or their contribution history. Until there is a better / more useful implementation, it should probably just be removed.

Links to some community discussions: Lilas Talk page or the German Kurier.

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Mentioned In: T85929: [EPIC] Kill SpecialUserProfile or Move MobileFrontend extension's Special:UserProfile.php and related code to a separate MediaWiki extension
T90801: Remove last edited pageimage from Special:Userprofile
T90611: Special:UserProfile has unclosed div which destroy the page view
T90632: What's the use of Special:UserProfile
Mentioned Here: T90801: Remove last edited pageimage from Special:Userprofile
T85929: [EPIC] Kill SpecialUserProfile or Move MobileFrontend extension's Special:UserProfile.php and related code to a separate MediaWiki extension

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• Saenger created this task.Feb 25 2015, 6:36 PM

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Maryana renamed this task from What's the use of Special:UserProfile ? to Create an opt out for Special:Userprofile.Feb 25 2015, 6:43 PM

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This is somewhat related to T85929: [EPIC] Kill SpecialUserProfile or Move MobileFrontend extension's Special:UserProfile.php and related code to a separate MediaWiki extension.

And to T90801.

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Jdlrobson moved this task from Needs triage to In Discussion / Open Questions on the MobileFrontend-Feature-requests board.Feb 27 2015, 5:01 PM

Where can I vote to either kill this dumb-ass idea or -- at the very least -- vote for the ability to opt out of it?

Eh, I think you've poisoned the well here with comments like "dumb-ass idea." I think everyone agrees that Special:UserProfile is currently a pretty weak implementation, but you shouldn't be hostile about it. The answer is to either kill SpecialUserProfile.php or move it into a separate extension. I'll discuss that at T85929.

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Change 194451 had a related patch set uploaded (by Legoktm):
Remove Special:UserProfile functionality

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/194451

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