1271499 - Remove Website and About me sections from user profile

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: User management, task)

Description

[John Whitlock [:jwhitlock]]

What feature should be changed? Please provide the URL of the feature if possible.
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Remove the Website and About Me sections from the user profiles, in display and editing.  Keep existing columns in the database, and continue anonymizing it, to allow a quick reversal in the near future.

What problems would this solve?
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These fields are targets for spam on MDN.  Removing them would remove a spam vector and eliminate the need for developing spam moderation tools.

Who would use this?
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These fields are rarely used by active MDN contributors. They are sometimes used by users who never contribute documentation updates.

What would users see?
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The would no longer see the free-text About Me field in profiles or the profile editing screen. They would no longer see the URL-restricted Website field.

What would users do? What would happen as a result?
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Users would continue to be able to enter websites for Twitter, Stack Overflow, LinkedIn, Mozillians, and Facebook.  Users could link their GitHub page to show that link on the site.  Users would add "About Me" and personal website links to other websites

Is there anything else we should know?
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The proposal to remove these fields was discussed on the MDN mailing list:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.mdn/uCU6q2jSs8k

Comment 1

[MDN Team (:mdn-dev)]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/kuma

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/77ac3f0c69c755c3223d5d23fcab79585f93069f
bug 1271499 - Remove About Me section from user profile display/edit and from the tests.

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/a2f90ba57ad6c69be4c06d8ccfe7e1382fe5ec63
bug 1271499 - Remove Website URL field from user profile display/edit and from tests.

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/b46c27fcb3678f5c634dd77d3764249300b03c1e
bug 1271499 - Replace missing ul.

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/ef6ab64a9bf175219d91bd11fd5c58ca4e49d384
bug 1271499 - Remove 'website_url' from user form.

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/b700deceeedb27e64d2ed2865ddfb5336734d1d1
bug 1271499 - Adjust 2 tests to remove bio/website_url.

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/c78e076fb7786301a08475a93550da7db92e206a
Merge pull request #3867 from caktus/new-issue-1271499-remove-about-me

bug 1271499 - Remove about me, website from profile

Comment 2

[John Whitlock [:jwhitlock]]

About Me and Website removed in production:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/profiles/Sheppy