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Global user pages
are
user pages
defined on Meta that apply on other Wikimedia wikis. This includes three pages:
Your
Meta user page
will be shown on any wiki where you don't have a local user page.
Your
global.css
contains
styles
that are imported on every wiki when you're logged in.
Your
global.js
contains
scripts
that are loaded on every wiki when you're logged in.
You must have a
global account
to use these features.
The global pages will only be inherited on wikis where you have a local account (see
a list of accounts attached to your global account
), meaning your global user page won't appear on wikis you've never visited.
Managing global user page and scripts
Global user pages, JavaScript scripts and style sheets are enabled by default, and once these pages are created, they will come into effect automatically. For more details about managing and controlling global user pages, scripts and style sheets, see the documentation:
For global user pages
For global user scripts and style sheets
To prevent your Meta-Wiki user page from appearing globally, you may add the
__NOGLOBAL__
magic word
, which also determines whether a link to a user page on a remote wiki should be red or blue.
Meta-Wiki uses an abuse filter to prevent another person's (global) user page from being edited by IP editors and editors without an elevated level of permission.
Local user pages
Your global user page won't be shown on local wikis if you already have a user page there.
You can
request all your local pages to be deleted by a bot
Transclusion and wikilinks
This page is displayed as a
transclusion
of the userpage in Meta in your local wiki. Therefore, if you don't want a particular text to appear globally, you can use

tag. Also, if you want a text to appear only globally, you can use

tag.
Wikilinks for your userpage on Meta do not work on another wiki, for example: in User:Example, when you link on
User:Example/sandbox
, in Wikidata this link would be redirected to
d:User:Example/sandbox
, not your Meta sandbox. You can bypass this issue by using
m:User:Example/sandbox
Content
Your global user page should not contain content considered inappropriate on projects where it will be displayed (see
help about user pages
for more information, and for interwiki links to language help pages). Please use
Meta:Civility
as a guide.
Translation
While you can't translate your user page automatically into the local content language, you can translate it into the reader's user interface language (which may not be the wiki's default language!). For example, this adds a
user language box
, and a sentence translated into either German or English:
{{#babel:en|de-2}}
{{#switch:{{int:lang}}
|de=Willkommen auf meiner Benutzerseite!
|en=Welcome to my user page!
|#default=Welcome to my user page!
}}
The text in any language can be any number of lines, but every language can only occur once inside the #switch-block. The #default-block must not be missed, as it is the fallback for all possible languages, that are not explicitly mentioned.
You can see
a more complex example
See also
Wikitech-l:
Global user pages deployed to all wikis
GlobalUserPage Extension
Help page about the extension
Synchbot
(bot used to synchronise or delete pages across Wikimedia wikis)
Help about unified login
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