On Apr 11, 2005 10:02 PM, Thomas Gries <mail(a)tgries.de> wrote:
I know of many users having asked for implementing
this, but how do
_you_ like this ?
Shall we notify changes on both pages ?
I'm not sure about this; it's quite nice having the user_talk page be
the one unique page capable of alerting you in this way. Sure, people
shouldn't be editting your user: page anyway, but that can be dealt
with on the watchlist like anything else (and a lot of people have
multiple user sub-pages they want to track in this way). And while it
might be a message, it might just be someone fiddling, or even
editting twice to remove something when they realised it was in the
wrong place.
That's just my opinion, though, and not that strongly held, to be honest.
I have 1.4.1 code ready for allowing old or new
behaviour (settable in
DefaultSettings).
Wouldn't it make more sense to have this as a *per-user* preference,
even if the default were set from LocalSettings.php? I don't think
this is really an administrative decision so much as, well, a
preference... ;)
But obviously, that's more complex, and if most people would feel this
to be an improvement, then letting the site admin turn it back off
would be fine.
--
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]