701240 - Change default user page text to direct users to their profile

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Janet Swisher]

User profiles are not very discoverable from within the wiki. However, one of the things many new users do is to go to their wiki user page. They often try to tag their user page based on their interests, which messes up the tag-based search results. If we directed them to their profile, they might discover the Interests tags instead.

For example, add some text like:

To add personal and contact information about yourself, edit your <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/profiles/username">profile page</a>.

Comment 1

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

Sheppy/Craig, do you know - is this something we have to do in the deki skin, or can we just edit the base user template page?

Comment 2

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

This is done using the user template page here: https://developer.mozilla.org/Template:New_user_page

The contents of that template are copied to new user pages when they're created.

Comment 3

[Janet Swisher]

Made these changes:
https://developer.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Template:New_user_page&action=diff&revision=8&diff=9