LessWrongWiki User Pages Underutilized; Tag Proposal

I've made a template for UserInfo. Very open to suggestions on parameters, default text, ordering, category names. It's a wiki, so you're welcome to improve it if you feel you have something to add, or let me know and I'll do the editing.

Try it out on your userpages by adding {{UserInfo |network= |questions= |proofread= |messages= |helpwith= |crocker= }} to your userpage, or see the quick documentation for more details.

Maybe this could get added to the OP or linked?

Yes!

comment confirming creation of such a user page

I have updated my user page.

Is there any way I can delete my userpage or set up a redirect so that when I click on my name it takes me to my comments page like it used to?

I attempted to do this. At first I was getting the message:

This action has been automatically identified as harmful, and therefore disallowed. If you believe your edit was constructive, please inform an administrator of what you were trying to do. A brief description of the abuse rule which your action matched is: New editors cannot create pages

This appears to be due to the abuse filter:

<abusefilters>
  <filter id="1" description="New editors cannot create pages" pattern="user_age  &lt;= 128400&#13;&#10;&amp; old_size === 0&#13;&#10;&amp; action   === &#039;edit&#039;&#13;&#10;&amp; user_editcount = 0" />
</abusefilters>

In order to not be a "new user" it appears that you have to have made at least one edit in the LessWrong Wiki. I'm far from convinced that the LW Wiki actually needs an article on quantum mechanics, but it's got one now. I then managed to successfully create a wiki page.

With that being said, I'm still unclear as to how to make my LessWrong profile link to the Wiki. My user page http://lesswrong.com/user/leplen/ still redirects me to http://lesswrong.com/user/leplen/overview and there is no obvious reload from wiki button.

Overall I would rate this process moderately difficult and surprisingly time consuming. If this is something that anyone expects a significant number of people to do, it might be worth it to make it easier or write a guide.

I have updated my user page.

To get a critical mass I propose upvoting any comment confirming creation of such a user page. The voting on this comment should show whether encouraging user page creation is a good idea.

Updated my userpage.

User page created. I predict distinctly limited takeup for this suggestion, though.

It would be pretty easy to set up a little template with a bunch of parameters which generates a nicely formatted box. Could also add categories automatically so it'd be easy to, for example, go to the category of people interested in business networking. More ambitious things which could be added include queries (e.g. search for business network people in bay area), though that'd be much easier with Semantic Mediawiki, something which excludes a user from certain categories/searches if they have been inactive for a certain length of time (easiest would likely be with a magic word extension for medawiki which returns a user's last active date).

I can throw together a basic template later, then edit it based on feedback on parameters?