| thiemowmde added a comment. |
I just talked to @Lydia_Pintscher about the 3 options.
I believe #3 would be bad. What would happen? Let's say I make an edit on Wikidata, and this edit spreads to 100 client wikis. My user account is automatically created on all these wikis the same time. On half of the wikis a bot comes and adds a welcome message to the local talk page. I get notifications for all of these. This is bad for multiple reasons: The obvious issue is the Echo spam, and also that I now have multiple dozen talk pages I never wanted.
#2 does have an important benefit: for all edits that are done from a client (currently only for sitelinks, but we want to have much more client editing), the local recent changes entries for this edit will point to the local user. This is exactly what I would expect as a user doing this edit. I never visited Wikidata. I don't want recent changes entries point to a user page on Wikidata I do not use.
The problem with #2 is that for all other wikis that are not my home wiki, the recent changes entires will also point to local user pages I do not use, and do not want to maintain.
#1 is the most consistent solution. Always point to Wikidata. After all, the edit was actually done on Wikidata.
With solution #1, the user doing edits from a client wiki will wonder why recent changes entires do not point to his own local user page, but to Wikidata. The good thing about this issue is that it is always very easy to solve: this is only 1 user page the user needs to maintain, not hundreds.
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