Help:Extension:GlobalUserPage

The ext-gup>Special:MyLanguage/Extension:GlobalUserPage|GlobalUserPage extension lets you reuse the same user page across multiple wikis in a wikifarm.

Enabling your global user page
In most cases, you don't need to do anything. If a local user page is not showing what you desire, you may need one or more of the following steps.


 * Create your user page on the central wiki. On the Wikimedia projects, [//meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage your Meta user page] is your global user page.
 * If the feature is disabled by default and ext-gp>Special:MyLanguage/Extension:GlobalPreferences|GlobalPreferences is installed, go to Special:GlobalPreferences and enable the "Use global user page" and "Use this preference on all wikis" checkboxes.

Note that deleting the local user page will mean the user page will no longer appear in search results.
 * If you already have a local user page on some wiki with content which you no longer want to be shown, you need to request its deletion. See h-deleting>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Deleting a page|Help:Deleting a page for details, or contact an administrator of that wiki.

Where content comes from
Your global user page is generated on the central wiki, and the result is shown on local wikis. The content you see on the central wiki is what you'll see on other wikis. This means:


 * transcluding templates will use the central wiki's templates (your global user page won't use local templates);


 * transcluding special pages like  will transclude the data from the central wiki;


 * the   magic>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Magic_words#Localization|parser function will show system messages from the central wiki;


 * magic>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Magic words|magic words like   will show the value from the central wiki.

h-wikilinks>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Wikilinks|Wikilinks are relative, so they'll point to the local wiki.

On Wikimedia projects, use meta>m:Help:Interwiki linking#Portable links portable|interwiki links.

Disabling your global user page
To disable the global user page, you can use the   magic word, which if present on the central user page, will prevent it from being displayed on remote wikis.

This will also determine whether a link to a user page on remote wiki should be red or blue.

Controlling what content is displayed
Just like transcluding a template, you can use the  </> and <tvar|includeonly> </> tags to control what content is only displayed on the central site where the page exist, or globally on all sites.

You can "opt out" of global user pages by simply wrapping your central user page in <tvar|noinclude> </> tags. If the page is empty or consists only of invisible content like <tvar|noindex> </>, it won't be shown on other wikis.

Caveats

 * Your user page might not look the same on other wikis due to differences in their site CSS. Check your page on a dir>Special:MyLanguage/Directionality support</>|Right To Left wiki, e.g., <tvar|ar>ar:</> or <tvar|he>he:</>.


 * Transclusions of special pages or parser functions like <tvar|example> </> won't update as frequently as they do locally.


 * Page status indicators on the central wiki user page, e.g., an ICBM geohack in <tvar|code> &hellip; </>, will not work on local wikis. Try <tvar|code> &hellip; </> to get a page status indicator affecting only the user page on the central wiki, i.e., Meta-Wiki for most Wikimedia projects.


 * Non-content wikitext will be ignored on local wikis. This includes categories, redirects and some magic>Help:Magic words</>|magic words like <tvar|noindex> </> and <tvar|displaytitle> </>.


 * Attempts to create interlanguage>Special:MyLanguage/Interlanguage links</>|interlanguage links <tvar|code> </> end up as ordinary <tvar|result>User:example</> links.