On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Matthew Flaschen <mflaschen@wikimedia.org> wrote:
 desktop preserves returnto and returntoquery in this particular
case (some page -> click login -> click signup), so ideally Mobile would
do the same.

It does but seems buggy. If I visit http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobilize , click the hamburger, click login (the URL is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php ? title=Special:UserLogin &returnto=Mobilize &returntoquery=welcome%3Dyes ), then click Create account, the form URL is
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php ? title=Special:UserLogin &type=signup &returnto=Mobilize &returntoquery=welcome%3Dyes

This is all great. But after I create an account, I end up on a generic account creation page and the Return to is wrong:

The user account for SpageTest mobile 0730-7 (talk) has been created.

Return to Special:UserLogin.

... Somehow mobile is ignoring the returnto and returntoquery. Seems like a bug.  Maybe CentralAuth/SUL2 changes have affected Mobile's behavior.


Maryana, did Mobile intend something cool to happen with welcome=yes ?  If I visit http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobilize?welcome=yes nothing awesome happens, AFAICT.

That's the generic flow. Wherever you provide your own link to create an account, as Steven said you should set a campaign ?campaign=Maryana42 [1] and you probably want to set the returnto and returntoquery to something interesting [2].  (Currently the mobile site doesn't load the small piece of JS that sets the campaign session cookie, but it could.)

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Account_creation_campaigns
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:S_Page_%28WMF%29/Return_to

If anyone in Mobile has questions about this put them in touch with me.
Hmm, isn't this Kenan's job now? :-)
Cheers,
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