User Profile

The User Profile extension overrides the default wiki user profile to provide an enhanced customisable profile similar to that of Social Profile and Fandom's profiles, but without all of the additional mess. User Profiles can be used alongside a wiki profile, and you can still access your regular wiki profile from the "user page" tab on your profile.

Features

Avatar

The User Profile extension provides an avatar which is shown on the page in the masthead. The image is 96x96 by default, so make sure that your image looks good, because it might be scaled up or down depending on its size. Users can upload an avatar at Special:UploadAvatar, which will show a form to upload the image; if you have used Social Profile before, the interface will be similar as this part is adapted from Social Profile's code.

User Groups

The profile masthead will also contain your user groups, both locally, and user groups gotten from CentralAuth, if you are part of any global user groups on Telepedia (such as CVT, or Staff). It will not show some default groups, such as autoconfirmed, user, or the '*' group—which is given to everyone, regardless of whether you are anonymous or not.

Social Links

There are a set of social links provided by the extension, which can be added or removed to display links to several different services; these include Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, PSN, Xbox, and a few others. There is a Discord field, where you can put in your Discord username for users to find (similar to how it is done on Fandom).

These fields are validated by the extension, and as such, if you put a link in here that does not conform to how a user profile link would look on the service, it will be saved but will not be displayed to users. None of these links are mandatory, and you can only add which you like; if a link is left blank, it will not be displayed.

About Me

There is a section below everything which replaces the regular wiki page, which you can add anything you like into—just as you would a regular wiki page. The contents of this field is ran through MediaWiki's parser, so feel free to use wiki text here, such as templates, etc, it will render as it would you were editing a regular article.

Customisation

The look and feel of the user page has been designed with the Vector skin in mind, since this is the most popular skin on Telepedia; but it also works perfectly fine in the MonoBook skin. If the profile doesn't look good in the skin you're using, please do let us know, and we'll do our best to fix this.

Otherwise, you can always edit MediaWiki:UserProfile.css, which will only be applied to the user profile if you need to make some amendments; if you think you can improve the design, however, please let us know on Phabricator and we can implement the changes if acceptable.