On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Neil P. Quinn nquinn@wikimedia.org wrote:
I used the "loginCTA" campaign data just a couple weeks ago to track the effects of a change to the design of the call to action on Special:UserLogin.[1] Since the Editing department is (theoretically at least) responsible for accounts and signups, I imagine I'll have reasons to use it in the future as well. So I definitely vote for keeping it.
It's not critical data, though, so if it makes more sense to put the instrumentation back in next week's train, that's fine.
To put the campaign back, someone will have to figure out a good way to let an extension mess with the link in LoginSignupSpecialPage::getAuthForm(). Options include
- Sticking a new hook in there to mess with the link and/or the HTML. - Rearranging the code so it's done as an HTMLInfoField instead of being appended as HTML using HTMLForm->addFooterText(), so you can use the existing 'AuthChangeFormFields' hook to mess with it.