This is a long thread that I just caught wind of, but I thought I'd
interject with a few notes.
The E3 team is going to start doing experiments on the account creation
process, starting with the signup page. The front-end is going to be
reworked to conform to the design team's new "Agora" standards, like so:
As for the API: we are going to make some improvements to it as part of our
first experiment. Yes, it is functional now, but we need to do a bit of
hacking to support our proposed UX improvements, as well as make it more
consistent with WMF JavaScript guidelines. If someone wants to improve the
signup template in core, that would be excellent - but since our team needs
to move quickly, we're likely going to just going to make our own fork of
the extension and display the proposed template for users in a small
experimental bucket.
Feel free to email me if you have questions. :-)
Cheers,
Munaf
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Tyler Romeo <tylerromeo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
With items like SpecialPages and API classes, it is
indeed a possibility to
first make it an extension and then integrate it, primarily because there
is little difference in how a core SpecialPage/APIBase is implemented and
how an extension is implemented. However, this workflow is not required.
The problem is that the LoginForm class is old and run-down, and we
shouldn't really be basing code off of it. A better way to go about it
would be to make use of the newer MW infrastructures like FormSpecialPage
and Status to make a cleaner implementation. The account creation API
currently in Gerrit is actually a bit of a hack (as is the Login API and
many other similar modules) because of the fact that there is not a good
separation between application logic and UI in many core features of MW. It
would be much preferred to fix this then to pile on top of the current way
things are implemented.
*--*
*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015
Major in Computer Science
www.whizkidztech.com | tylerromeo(a)gmail.com
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Akshay Agarwal <
akshay.leadindia(a)gmail.com
wrote:
I am not sure how stuff works now but at the time
I was working on this
project, any features missing in the MediaWiki codebase were first
developed as an extension, reviewed, tested and then integrated in the
core.
The current version of the SpecialPage looks similar to LoginForm because
it was indeed derived from there & one of the main goals for this project
was to remove the account creation code from SpecialUserLogin & put it
inside its own SpecialPage. I do realize that some refactoring might
still
be needed but I definitely can say that the
efforts to do that would be
much lesser than rewriting the entire module because the new module would
again have to go through similar iterations through which SignupAPI
already
went.
Tyler, I really appreciate your efforts in developing a new API & I would
encourage you to contribute with all the learning that you have had in
this
project to getting SignupAPI deployed because the
project involves many
more things than just an additional API, many of which I have conveyed in
my previous mail.
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Derric Atzrott <
datzrott(a)alizeepathology.com> wrote:
User
account creation is something that is pretty critical to the
MediaWiki
>infrastructure. If we're going to be completely revamping the signup
page,
it
should not be done in an extension.
Furthermore, looking at the extension's code now, there are numerous
design
problems that would need to be fixed if this were
to be deployed
(primarily
the
fact that the entire special page looks pretty
much like a copy of
LoginForm's
account creation interface).
Not to mention that an account creation API is something that the core
needs and
site admins should not have to rely on an
extension to install it.
I'm welcome to a rewrite and refactoring of the LoginForm, if that's a
goal
we
want to aim towards.
Still we should take note of the lessons he learned when he made his
extension and apply them to development of a API in the core, should we
go
that route.
I agree that this should be a core feature and not an extension. This
seems
like the sort of thing that many Wikis will need and I'm somewhat
surprised
the request for someone to make it doesn't
come up more often.
Thank you,
Derric Atzrott
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