Hi Steven,

Just wanted to tell you (because I haven't run into you to say it, and because people here may be interested) that last Saturday I helped some new people at the San Francisco editathon register on the enWP, and the new registration process was much easier for them than it was the last time I helped people register, pre-this system. And, the Getting Started stuff is great: the people I helped all immediately went to the typo-fixing queue, and seemed to find it reasonably understandable and easy to use. I know you know this from the testing data: now you know it from anecdata too :-)

Thanks, Sue On May 28, 2013 8:05 PM, "Steven Walling" swalling@wikimedia.org wrote:

Hi everyone,

Per our blog post last month,[1] we've been testing redesigns for account creation and login across the projects. We've been doing so on an opt-in basis, but we've dealt with any major bugs and translations are complete for quite a few languages.

Starting tomorrow and barring any last minute hiccups, we're going to start rolling out the new designs. Right now we're limiting it to about 30 projects, including the following...

• Wikipedia in 21 languages, including English, German, French, Italian,

Polish, Dutch, Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic, Korean, Czech, Swedish, and others.

• In English: Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikispecies, Wikinews, Wiktionary,

and Wikiquote.

• Wikimedia Commons
• Wikidata
• Meta
• MediaWiki .org

There are still local customizations that will need to be made in many of these, but they are the kind of thing that doesn't require a developer to do, just edits to the wiki. Look for announcements soon on your local Village Pump equivalent for more info, or check out our testing documentation.[2] I'll be around to help any of these wikis that don't have an admin handy to make requested changes.

The remaining projects we have held off on because there are localizations still to be completed (on translatewiki) or there are problems with localizations already finished. Since the work of localizations is never 100% complete however, we are putting out a hard *deadline of June 5th*, after which we'll be turning on the forms for all projects, in all languages. If you're interested in learning more about which wikis in particular need help, please email me off-list or get in touch via my user talk page anywhere.

Please speak up if you have any questions. You can still try these new forms on any Wikimedia project via the method mentioned in the two links below...

1. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/25/try-new-login-accountcreation/
2. mediawiki.org/wiki/Account_creation_user_experience/Testing

-- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/

P.S. Sorry if there are odd linebreaks in this message. Has anyone figured out how to avoid this in Gmail? _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.orgwrote:

The remaining projects we have held off on because there are localizations still to be completed (on translatewiki) or there are problems with localizations already finished. Since the work of localizations is never 100% complete however, we are putting out a hard *deadline of June 5th*, after which we'll be turning on the forms for all projects, in all languages. If you're interested in learning more about which wikis in particular need help, please email me off-list or get in touch via my user talk page anywhere.

Per my previous announcement and a note delivered more widely as a part of Tech News (thanks Guillom, Odder and others for that), we're going to be enabling the new design as default for all remaining Wikimedia projects today. You should start seeing it visible after 22:00 UTC.

All of the top 10 language projects by size are complete and should have no remaining issues, but the long tail of smaller wikis have not yet completed translation [1]. The messages have been out for several weeks now, so if you're like Turkish, Hindi, or Urdu and don't have the new login or signup strings translated, now's your reason to get started. ;-)

Even if translations are complete, you might notice a few red links to be tidied up. There's a list of these help links in our testing documentation,[2] and I'll be going around trying to help do any final customizations.

1. See a list sorted by completed translations for MediaWiki core at https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3AMessageGroupStats&x=D&... 2. mediawiki.org/wiki/Account_creation_user_experience/Testing#Providing_help_links