User talk:Nicole Sharp/archive

Nicole Sharp (talk) 08:24, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

user talk:Nicole Sharp (2015)

Nicole Sharp (talk) 08:24, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

welcome to Meta!

Hello, Nicole Sharp. Welcome to the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki! This website is for coordinating and discussing all Wikimedia projects. You may find it useful to read our policy page. If you are interested in doing translations, visit Meta:Babylon. You can also leave a note on Meta:Babel or Wikimedia Forum if you need help with something (please read the instructions at the top of the page before posting there). Happy editing!

magic of a metauserpage

• Hi Nicole. I see that you have been creating user pages around the wikis, and that is not necessary. All you need to do is to create a user page here at meta, and with the magic of transclusion that user page will appear at every wiki for you until you create a specific user page at the wiki (ie. a local page overrides the transclusion), which is pretty much how we propagate Commons images through the wikis. For instance if you look at q:User:Billinghurst you will see my user page from User:Billinghurst (with some slight differences through my local use of <includeonly> and <noinclude> tags). Far easier to do, and to update.  — billinghurst sDrewth 04:47, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
  • I am not certain if a centralized wikiuserpage is simpler or more complicated. Userpages customized per each project (e.g. favorite quotes on WikiQuote, favorite words on Wiktionary, etc.) can be helpful and interesting I think. Also, some wikiprojects are per-language whereas other wikiprojects are multilingual (such as WikiSpecies and Wikimedia Commons), so that both monolingual and multilingual profiles are arguably most effective, depending on the project. Nicole Sharp (talk) 21:01, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
    • It's not currently auto translated in multiple languages though... Tropicalkitty (talk) 04:22, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
      • The central page is more like a default page, if you don't have a local page at each wiki, as I mentioned above. I am not telling you what to do, just what is possible.  — billinghurst sDrewth 13:19, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

• Unblocked again. I will update the abuse filter.  — billinghurst sDrewth 12:13, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
  • Thanks! Updated. However, I do see a problem with using a monolingual metawikipage on non-English Wikimedia projects. It would be nice if there was a way to customize metawikipages towards languages or language groups (e.g. using a Latin-language page for all Romance-language wikiuserpages, instead of translating into each individual Romance language). Nicole Sharp (talk) 12:43, 11 October 2015 (UTC)