On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Quim Gil quim.gil@nokia.com wrote:
On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 14:50 -0400, ext Pharos wrote:
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 2:49 AM, Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.rs wrote:
Perhaps it would be helpful if, when creating a new account, a user could write a short message about what would they like to do on Wikipedia (this would become their user page). It would give us an idea on what part of guidelines to present to the new user, and also very needed insight on why do people just create account and leave.
This is the best actually-practical idea I've seen in a long, long time!
++to making user page info for new accounts a simple box to fill in at registration
Agree. Feature request created, otherwise it risks being forgotten:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28494
Please discuss there, vote, and eventually fix it. Thanks!
-- Quim
This all seems rather closely related to the work going on at the Accounts Creation Project: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Account_Creation_Improvement_Project
Which is being actively worked on -- cc'ing Lennart who is leading it.
best, Phoebe