https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19161
--- Comment #17 from Andrew Garrett <agarr...@wikimedia.org> 2009-10-16 11:55:17 UTC --- (In reply to comment #16) > > Or alternatively, common storage, instead of storing the same thing a > > million times. > > It is already stored a "million" times : each wikis already stores these > preferences locally, as well as the existing SUL server for these global > preferences. > > But using a single storage ONLY in SUL, but not locally would impact users : > they won't be able to have local preferences, when they want to keep them. For > example, users may still want to have different email options for specific > wikis (such as forwarding or not the messages posted in their discussion > page), > even if they use the same validated email address on all of them: one good > reason for that is that some wikis are handled by teams of local > administrators > that a user can trust on some wikis, but absolutely not on all wikis. It's simple to have local overrides and still use common storage for defaults. You don't need to speculate about the implementation details, just specify the features that you want. This is way off the topic of this bug. To discuss global preferences, please see bug 14950. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
