User:Helge.at/Various Feature Ideas

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List of Feature Suggestions[edit]

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.
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