User:Helge.at/Various Feature Ideas

Work in progress!

List of Feature Suggestions

List of ideas, just for myself. Will collect and eventually submit to the mailing list.

1. Variable for username of logged in user {{USERNAME}}, for e.g. creating a link to someone's user page. If user is not logged in display sth like "(no username)". Very useful feature for wikis in intranet settings (that force login).
   1. Try Special:Mypage. Titoxd^(?!?) 07:54, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
2. Get rid of the micro-feature "toctoggle", it's completely useless and just adds clutter
3. Make it possible to display a custom title on the main page (instead of "Main Page"). Background: A front page needs to display the title of the Site, not the title of the page. This has been hacked on the English Main Page in CSS: h1.firstHeading { display: none !important; } . Already on the German Main Page the default "Hauptseite" header dominates the page. I've seen many wikis doing ugly workarounds with redirects. This should be fixed. (Example for a fix: Something like __H1:Welcome to [[Wikipedia]]__, similar to NOTOC.) See also the Title Override Extension over at Mozilla.org.
   1. See Template:Lowercase. Titoxd^(?!?) 07:54, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
4. Create a LocalSettings-option to recognize individual line breaks as <br />. I understand that this is not desired in Wikipedia and why, however I found this to be the biggest single obstacle to new users in smaller wikis, especially on corporate wikis.
5. Create a LocalSettings-option to deactivate bots as a group - removing all references to bots from the interface (e.g. in MediaWiki:Histlegend in some languages).#
6. {{Special:Whatlinkshere/XXX}} - Socialtext dispays backlinks inline and it would be great to be able to do that in Mediawiki, too. Just like {{Special:Recentchanges/5}}, which does work.