Board Thread:New Features/@comment-28737464-20170616122510/@comment-168424-20170616184604

Kirkburn wrote: We've actually had some discussion about this in the past - the restriction has some pros and cons. One particular problem is that there can be legitimate reasons to edit another person's user page - such as fixing a template, updating a link, or removing content that's against the wiki guidelines.

While that can be alleviated by continuing to allow admins/mods to edit such pages, it's a restriction that could potentially annoy more than it can help - so it requires careful thought. More feedback is welcome!

I would say that I don't think it would be good to have this change on a per-wiki basis - that could be quite confusing. If we tweaked this, it's probably best as a global change.

I don't think having a restriction per-wiki would be any more confusing than the many, many per-wiki differences. The same argument could be made for anon editing which is per-wiki and better for it.

Having a restriction to limit editing of user pages to the user, content moderators, and admins/crats seems very reasonable. Even better, create a user right called something like "userpageedit".