Extension:GlobalUserPage

GlobalUserPage enables global (shared between wikis) user pages on a wiki farm.

This extension was developed by Jack Phoenix for ShoutWiki, originally based on the HelpPages extension by Kunal Mehta (the extensions no longer share any code).

User documentation
See Help:Extension:GlobalUserPage.

Caveats
Using this extension comes with a few security risks. You must absolutely trust the central wiki and its admins, as they can easily insert raw HTML into your wiki, opening up XSS holes and other bad things.

Parameters
is the URL to the central wiki's. This URL is internally used to fetch the global user page's text.

controls how long to cache the rendered HTML for; the default is  (one week). The HTML is usually invalidated upon editing, but this is a worst case fallback.

is the name of the database where global user page data is stored, i.e. usually this should be set to the same value as.

message key to add as a footer to the bottom of global user pages, or false if no footer should be added.

Timeout for internal API requests, to use set this to the string "default".