Talk:Requests for comment/Core user preferences

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Guys, we're planning on making a lot of changes in this field; this is a known. It might be best to hold off until we've worked out what the plan is, otherwise we'll have two sets of ideas running pell-mell into each other. Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 20:29, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

Who's we and what plans are you talking about? --MZMcBride (talk) 21:38, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

As discussed on IRC (but duplicated here); the Micro Design Improvements team, and...the Micro Design Improvements team ;p. Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 07:39, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Whatever happened with Micro Design Improvements? --MZMcBride (talk) 08:05, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

There are known knowns, of course. --MZMcBride (talk) 12:50, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

Related data

See en:Wikipedia:Database reports/User preferences. English-only obviously, but still interesting. Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 21:39, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

Some prefs I often hide

This is my boilerplate for new third-party wikis I create. A little restrictive, but has worked well for me, never had a complaint or request about it.

# Hide prefs
## personal
$wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'skin';
$wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'realname';
$wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'nickname';
$wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'fancysig';
## rendering
$wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'imagesize';
$wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'underline';
$wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'highlightbroken';
$wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'showjumplinks';
$wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'numberheadings';
$wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'vector-noexperiments';
## editing
$wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'previewontop';
$wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'editsection';
$wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'editsectiononrightclick';
$wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'editondblclick';
$wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'showtoolbar';
$wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'minordefault';
$wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'externaleditor';
$wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'externaldiff';
## rc
$wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'usenewrc';
## searchoptions
$wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'vector-simplesearch';
## misc
$wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'diffonly';
$wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'norollbackdiff';

Krinkle (talk) 13:50, 25 September 2012 (UTC)