The below changes to LocalSettings.php will override the default user preferences for anonymous visitors and users who have not customized their preferences. Existing user accounts who had the (previous) default option and didn't set it explicitly (which means that it's not stored in the database) will then use the new default.
In the old preferences system, the change affects only anonymous visitors (if relevant) and new accounts.
Name Default Description Versions User Profile fancysig 0 If User uses a custom (raw) signature (0 or 1). If user has not set a custom signature, their signature is controlled by the contents of the wiki page mediawiki:Signature or mediawiki:Signature-anon. If user has specified a custom sig, the actual text of the signature is in the nickname option. nickname'' Actual text of the custom signature enotifwatchlistpages 1 Email notification to editor if there are changes to a page the editor has on their watchlist. Only used if $wgEnotifWatchlist is set. enotifusertalkpages 1 Email notification to editor if there are changes to the editor's talk page. Only used if $wgEnotifUserTalk is set. enotifminoredits 0 Email notification to editor if there is a minor change to a watched page or user talk page, and the relevant option for sending emails on changes to watched page or user talk page is on. Only used if $wgEnotifWatchlist or $wgEnotifUserTalk are set. enotifrevealaddr 0 Only used if $wgEnotifRevealEditorAddress and either $wgEnotifWatchlist or $wgEnotifUserTalk are set. gender 'unknown' Used for gender-correct addressing by the software. This information will be public. Options are: male, female, or unknown. realname Default “real name”. Real name is optional. If you choose to provide it, this will be used for giving you attribution for your work. Use $wgHiddenPrefs to disable the real name field. language User specific interface language, especially useful in conjunction with $wgHiddenPrefs . This is not to set the wiki's default language. Use $wgLanguageCode instead. disablemail 0 Whether other users can send email to this user, if $wgEnableUserEmail is enabled. Skin skin false Which skin to use. May be false to indicate that the site default (as defined in $wgDefaultSkin ) should be used. Previously, numbers were used to designate skins. The only numerical values that are currently operative (as of MediaWiki 1.29) are 0, which means the default skin, and 2, which means Cologne Blue. skin-responsive 1 Enable responsive mode. Adapt skin to available viewport area. (May have no effect on some skins). Math math 1 How to render in-line maths (contents of <math></math> tags). Only applies if $wgUseTeX is set. Options are: 0 - Always render PNG, 1 - Leave it as TeX (for text browsers) Files imagesize 2 Size to limit images on description pages to. Values correspond to the entries in $wgImageLimits . By default, 2 is 800*600. thumbsize 5 Thumbnail size - Values correspond to the entries in $wgThumbLimits . By default, 5 is 300px. Date and Time date 'default' Date format. Options:
.mw-editsection { display:none!important; } to site-wide or user CSS, see phab:T54811. editsectiononrightclick 0 Enable section editing by right clicking on section titles (JavaScript) editondblclick 0 Edit pages on double click (JavaScript) showtoolbar 1 Show edit toolbar (requires javascript) previewonfirst 0 Show preview when starting to edit previewontop 1 Show preview before edit box minordefault 0 Mark all edits minor by default externaleditor Use external editor by default externaldiff Use external diff by default uselivepreview 0 forceeditsummary 0 Prompt user when entering a blank edit summary editfont 'monospace' Edit area font style. Options are: default (browser default), monospace, sans-serif, serif. useeditwarning 1 Warn me when I leave an edit page with unsaved changes Recent changes rcenhancedfilters-disable 0 Opts-out from New Filters for edit review. rcdays 7 Days to show in recent changes (cannot exceed $wgRCMaxAge ) rclimit 50 Maximum number of entries to display in recent changes (truncates rcdays) hideminor 0 Hide minor edits from recent changes shownumberswatching 1 Show the number of users, who are watching this page (on recent changes, watch list and article pages). Only used if $wgRCShowWatchingUsers is set. usenewrc 1 Enhanced recent changes - javascript collapsible tree hidepatrolled 0 Hide patrolled edits from recent changes newpageshidepatrolled 0 Hide patrolled pages from new page list hidecategorization 1 Hide categorization of pages Watchlist wlenhancedfilters-disable 0 Disable enhanced watchlist with JavaScript. watchlistdays 7.0 Number of days to show in watchlist (cannot exceed $wgRCMaxAge ) extendwatchlist 1 Expand watchlist to show all applicable changes wllimit 250 Number of edits to show in expanded watchlist (if 'extendwatchlist' == 1) watchlisthideown 0 Hide my edits from the watchlist watchlisthidebots 0 Hide bot edits from the watchlist watchlisthideminor 0 Hide minor edits from the watchlist watchcreations 1 Add pages the user creates and files they upload to their watchlist watchrollback 0 Add pages where the user has performed a rollback to their watchlist watchlisthideanons 0 Hide anonymous users' changes from the watchlist watchlisthideliu 0 Hide logged-in users' changes from the watchlist watchlisttoken Token of watchlist watchlisthidepatrolled 0 Hide patrolled edits from the watchlist watchlistreloadautomatically 0 Reload the watchlist automatically whenever a filter is changed (JavaScript required) watchlistunwatchlinks 0 Add direct unwatch/watch markers (×/+) to watched pages with changes (JavaScript required for toggle functionality) watchlisthidecategorization 1 Hides changes to category membership watchdefault 1
Add pages the user edits to their watchlist, checking the "Watch this page" by default on all edited pages.
This option can be disabled by editors in Preferences → Watchlist tab → Watched pages section and unchecking "Add pages and files I edit to my watchlist"
watchmoves 0 Add pages the user moves to their watchlist watchdeletion 0 Add pages the user deletes to their watchlist watchuploads 1 Add new files the user uploads to their watchlist Search searchlimit 20 Hits per page vector-simplesearch Whether or not the Vector skin should use the simple search box (Options are 1 for true and 0 for false). (removed in 1.23) ajaxsearch Enables AJAX Search (Options are 1 for true and 0 for false) searcheverything Search in all namespaces. (removed in 1.24) [1] searchnamespaces Add 'searchnamespaces' to $wgHiddenPrefs to prevent users from customizing “namespaces to be searched by default” in their preferences (they will still be able to set which namespaces should be searched on Special:Search). Use $wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault to set which namespaces are enabled for searching by default. Misc stubthreshold 0 Threshold for stub display underline 2 Whether to underline links. Options are: 0 - never, 1 - always, 2 - browser default justify Justify paragraphs numberheadings 0 Option "Auto-numbering Headings", 1 turns on the numbering of all headings within articles showtoc Boolean. 1 is show the TOC, 0 is hide it. nocache Disable page caching showhiddencats 0 Show hidden categories showjumplinks Enable "jump to" accessibility links diffonly 0 Don't show page content below diffs norollbackdiff 0 No diff after rollback ccmeonemails 0 Send me copies of emails I send to other users prefershttps 1 Always use a secure connection while logged in email-allow-new-users 1 Allow emails from brand-new users pst-cssjs 1 ? search-match-redirecttrue Go to exact match when searching search-special-page 'Search' showrollbackconfirmation 0 Show a confirmation prompt when clicking on a rollback link requireemail 0 Send password reset emails only when both email address and username are provided Extension:WikiEditor (packaged with MediaWiki 1.18+) usenavigabletoc Enable navigable table of contents wikieditor-publish Enable step-by-step publishing wikieditor-preview Enable side-by-side preview usebetatoolbar Enable enhanced editing toolbar usebetatoolbar-cgd Enable dialogs for inserting links, tables and more Extension:LiquidThreads lqt-watch-threads Watch threads that I create or reply to (true by default) lqtnotifytalk Email me on replies to a thread I am watching (false by default) Extension:Flow echo-subscriptions-web-flow-discussion ⧼echo-subscriptions-web-flow-discussion⧽ (true by default) echo-subscriptions-email-flow-discussion ⧼echo-subscriptions-email-flow-discussion⧽ (false by default) Extension:VisualEditor visualeditor-betatempdisable 0 Temporarily disable the visual editor while it is in beta
gadget-$gname e.g. gadget-HotCat for MediaWiki:Gadget-HotCat.js
Each language sets its own default values for the user preferences in its language file. For example languages that read right-to-left will probably set the Quickbar to appear on the right, instead of on the left. The values added to $wgDefaultUserOptions are overrides, i.e. if the value exists here then it will take precedence, but settings may be omitted from the array in which case the language's default value will be used.
In versions of MediaWiki prior to 1.8.0 the default value of this setting was simply an empty array, with the current language providing the default values.
From version 1.8.0 onwards, only the language-specific settings were overridden in the language file, so most settings are now explicitly set in DefaultSettings.php.
From version 1.19 (r91432), the overrides by the language files were removed because they didn't work, and the features that used them, like quickbar, have been done differently and better.
To disable section editing links by default (for new and anonymous users), set the following in LocalSettings.php:
$wgDefaultUserOptions['editsection'] = 0;
From version 1.23 onwards, the section editing links need to be disabled via site-wide or user CSS, see
phab:T54811for details on the change.
MediaWiki:Common.css: .mw-editsection { display:none!important; }
$wgDefaultUserOptions['watchdefault'] = 1;
If the preference is of type multiselect, things are a bit more complicated. The key for each default user option is the concatenation of the preference key with the option key. For example if the preference key is 'favoritecolors' and the option key is 'red', the default user option key would be 'favoritecolorsred'. In this hypothetical scenario, if you wanted to have red and yellow selected by default, you would use:
$wgDefaultUserOptions['favoritecolorsred'] = 1; $wgDefaultUserOptions['favoritecolorsyellow'] = 1;
If the preference is of type checkmatrix, things are even more complicated. The key for each default user option is the concatenation of the preference key with the column key and row key, separated with hyphens. For example if the preference key is 'favoritecars' and the column key is 'red' and the row key is 'corvette', the default user option key would be 'favoritecars-red-corvette'. In this hypothetical scenario, if you wanted to have red Corvette and black Jetta selected by default, you would use:
$wgDefaultUserOptions['favoritecars-red-corvette'] = 1; $wgDefaultUserOptions['favoritecars-black-jetta'] = 1;
When writing a MediaWiki extension, instead of using the global variable $wgDefaultUserOptions, you can add a section to extensions.json:
"DefaultUserOptions": {
"math": "png"
},
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