On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Daniel Friesen lists@nadir-seen-fire.comwrote:
- To have a combined form like that you have to create a brand new special
page; you can't do that within our current Special:UserLogin
- We don't provide a way to simply override the special page used for
login links Hence with these two facts that means it's impossible to make an alternate login form without replacing stuff inside the personal_urls by using hooks and constructing your own arrays to put in the list. Wikia doesn't even bother with hooks, they just make core modifications for this stuff.
Just FYI, work is being done to decouple account creation from Special:UserLogin. The initial SignupAPI extension was a GSOC project, and it's currently undergoing code review etc. This should allow us to implement some long overdue improvements, such as: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34447
The relevant bug: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36225
Steven