From: John Sanzi johnsanzi@gmail.com

Add new fields to the MediaWiki account creation process, including "first name", "last name", and maybe two or three others where new users can type their answers to essay questions.

I agree that this would be extremely nice to have in the code base.

I went to some trouble to make such changes, then made the mistake of upgrading MediaWiki, and it blew all my changes away. Now I use an extension table (mw_user_private) and that way updates don't clobber my schema additions.

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