On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
2012/10/5 Steven Walling <swalling@wikimedia.org>:
> Hey,
>
> Today we (editor engagement experiments team) started an A/B test of a
> new account registration page on English Wikipedia.

Is it a part of MediaWiki core or a completely local hack in en.wikipedia?

Is it possible to localize the messages there, like "Enter a desired username"?

For this iteration it's just JS magic tranforming the old form for English Wikipedia, in order to test the impact of the new design. Second iteration we'll add a new clientside form validation API. 

When we get ready to merge anything to core, we'll take the time to do proper i18n/l10n, naturally. 

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Steven Walling
https://wikimediafoundation.org/