Glossary of Terms

Kerry, Your name in red refers to your userpage (rather cryptically, I agree). If you click on it, and then leave content about yourself on that page, you'll see it turn into a blue link.

~Philippe (WMF)01:58, 12 March 2011

Philippe, I do have content on my user page. I think Steve's explanation may be correct. This is a wikimedia page not a wikipedia page, but if the Wikimedia single user login is smart enough to still know who I am, why isn't it smart enough to have the link back to my Wikipedia user page? Or for that matter, why not have single sign-on across all the WikiMedia projects and a single user page? Still, thank you for your answers to something that has been bugging me for some time.

Kerry Raymond02:07, 12 March 2011

I'm sorry, Kerry- your userpage on this wiki, and not on the English Wikipedia.

Your userpage on this wiki is at: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kerry_Raymond On the english wikipedia, it's at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kerry_Raymond

You'll note that the addresses are different - they're different sites, linked with a single login, as Steven said.

The reason that we don't have it automatically pull your userpage from one wiki is that many people operate in several different languages, and they'll have different userpages for each of those languages or functions.

~Philippe (WMF)02:09, 12 March 2011
 

Kerry, you're right on your first idea. What the single user login should be doing is automagically displaying links to each of your other user pages. If nothing else, that would help other people track you down if they wanted to post a message where you would be likely to read it. Since that's not happening, you probably should add the link yourself. :-)

Flatterworld07:06, 12 March 2011

And here is a +1 on this "feature" for single log in. Link to User page, or even choosing in your SUL preferences the "default user page" you'd like to use on new wikis, great idea.

Delphine (notafish)03:10, 13 March 2011