Wikimedia account

A Wikimedia user account can be used on any Wikimedia platform (Wikipedia being the best known).

• SUL is implemented. You can configure your user preferences (global and local).
• OAuth is used to login into Wikimedia related (non core) applications.

Functions

• Update your preferences
• List your contributions
• Communicate with other volonteers
• Participate with elections
• Maintain a user home page

Global user preferences

Global user preferences are valid for all projects:

• Global user pages, duplicated by other Wikimedia platforms, as a default
• Configure your global preferences
  1. Display preview below - Uncheck: Display preview above edit field
     • Could instead use interactive Preview mode;
     • or use the Visual editor.
• Configure your global CSS style
  • Style (size, colour) of headers
  • Hide some sections
  • Enable external functions like Copyright violation check

Local preferences

• Set preferences per platform or language.
• CSS per platform
• CSS per skin
• Local Gadgets like: ORES, Real-Time Recent Changes
• Browser extensions, like Who Wrote That

Missing functionality

• Global signature

See also

• MediaWiki

External links

• https://wikipedia.be