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(Re)purposing the "Custom 1-4" social profile page fields
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* I'll take a stroll through memory lane and hopefully get better at writing Python, and maybe one day I can write a bot that's not only functional but can actually do stuff like this. :P [[User:SamanthaNguyen|SamanthaNguyen]] ([[User talk:SamanthaNguyen|talk]]) 00:30, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
**Actually, it seems Pywikibot now supports Python 3, so I might be able to look at it too. I gave up before with it as it only used Python 2 and I couldn't be bothered to deal with the syntax differences :P [[User:CJC95|CJC95]] ([[User talk:CJC95|talk]]) 11:20, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
== (Re)purposing the "Custom 1-4" social profile page fields ==
The social profile pages have four custom fields (by default labeled "Custom 1", "Custom 2", etc.) which you can edit at [[Special:UpdateProfile/custom]]. On ArmchairGM, the social sports wiki where the [[mw:social tools|social tools]] were invented about a decade ago, these fields were labeled "Favorite Sports Moment", "Least Favorite Sports Moment", "Favorite Athlete" and "Least Favorite Athlete". In other words, site-specific personal opinions that wouldn't make sense outside that site.<br />Hence why for the public release of the [[mw:Extension:SocialProfile|SocialProfile MediaWiki extension]] in early 2008, they were relabeled "Custom 1" and so on. The "Custom '''N'''" naming scheme is unintuitive and confusing because social profiles are supposed to be ''structured''. For example the [[Special:UpdateProfile|personal information]] section is pretty simple and self-explanatory. But how is a new user supposed to know what to enter in the "custom" fields?
Despite this we have 32 users who have filled in these custom fields with something. In order to make things more sane, structured and consistent, I propose the following: '''we relabel the custom 1-4 profile fields to something more appropriate given the context of this wiki (LEGO)''' by having an admin (or a sysadmin) edit the appropriate MediaWiki pages, such as "Favorite minifigure", "Favorite set", "Favorite LEGO video game", etc.<br />These are mere initial suggestions and I'd be more than happy to hear your thoughts; I do think that we should avoid favorite vs. least favorite comparisons and the like. Things like that made sense for ArmchairGM, the sports wiki, given the competitiveness of sports in general, but it doesn't encourage a healthy and positive atmosphere here, so let's just stick to positive modifiers, shall we? --[[User:Jack Phoenix|Jack Phoenix]] ([[User talk:Jack Phoenix|talk]]) 13:44, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
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