Shouldn't we just use Meta? We could change its domain name accordingly.... don't see the need to setup an entirely new central wiki when we already have one.
This post was posted by Peachey88 (Flood), but signed as Jasper Deng.
Shouldn't we just use Meta? We could change its domain name accordingly.... don't see the need to setup an entirely new central wiki when we already have one.
This post was posted by Peachey88 (Flood), but signed as Jasper Deng.
The first issue is that we would like to disable all user javascript, and drastically limit the number of admins who could add javascript to the site. Since all users will have sessions on this site that can be used across domains, we want to be extra caution about how the site can be attacked. Second, it simplifies a lot of things if the wiki only has global accounts, and cannot be accessed by non-global accounts.
This post was posted by Peachey88 (Flood), but signed as CSteipp.
We've discussed (randomly chucked ideas around IRC) having a central wiki for user pages [and subsequent talk pages] and as the work on global user preferences progresses, As well as a single place to call as the "home wiki" on all new user creations (as there is one or two minor issues that can happen if there home wiki is deleted (yes, rare, but has happened)). Would these be acceptable uses the central wiki?
The central wiki for this work will effectively become the "home wiki" for all users (though once we've finished the finalisation of SUL, the concept of home-wiki will cease to really mean anything).
Cross-wiki notification is planned to be provided by Echo (and through it, cross-wiki notifications of Flow-based communication), so I'm not sure there'd be much value in a new central wiki for this kind of feature. However, global profiles and global user preferences would indeed both be something a central wiki could provide - though there's no particular reason why this couldn't be provided by meta for those items, as they do not pose security issues if users can write and cause to be executed arbitrary JS and CSS.
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