User blog:Blupo/Protecting Your User page

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This is a test blog (for various formatting) more than anything, but the information in it is true and useful. Also, hello there!

What is a User page? From FANDOM :

 User pages facilitate communication among participants in a wiki. Logged in users have a user page and talk page on every FANDOM community. You can find your own userpage at Special:MyPage on any FANDOM site.

User pages are not necessarily home pages, but a way of organizing the work that you are doing on a particular wiki and a way of helping other editors to understand with whom they're working.

Like any page on a wiki, your user page can be edited by anyone. It is commonly expected that others will not edit except to make minor corrections or improvements.

User pages, like most other pages of a wiki, are normally freely editable by anyone. This is because of the principles of the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikipedia influencing how FANDOM works. But sometimes you may not want this. Maybe your User page has become a victim of rampant (or any) valdalism, or maybe you just don't see the reason for having your User page editable by everyone.

Asking an admin or mod to protect your User page does exactly that! Except... now you can't edit it (unless you yourself are an admin). How do you get around this?

Userscript Pages

Your userscript pages (any subpage of your User page that ends in  or  ) are only editable by you and admins. You can use these to your advantage.


 * 1) Create a userscript page that will have your User page on it (userpage.css is a good name, but you can name it whatever you'd like.
 * 2) Edit the userscript page for whatever you want to put on your User page and publish it (note that editing a userscript page brings up a different editor than those for regular pages, and you cannot preview the content beforehand).
 * 3) Remove all content from your User page and transclude the userscript onto the page, and publish.
 * 4) Ask an admin to protect your User page.

And now only you can edit your User page! But you're stuck with this weird editor, and you can't actually see what it looks like. I mean, you can always create a sandbox page for creating your User page, but that seems like a lot of work.

Maybe there's a better way...

The UserPageEditProtection Extension And there is!

Admins will need to contact FANDOM to enable the UserPageEditProtection extension. This lets admins limit editing User pages to the user themselves and select others, with no work needed from the end-user. It seems markedly easier than using userscript pages.

Goodbye, and thanks for reading! Blupo (talk) 02:17, December 5, 2017 (UTC)

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