Hi Raimond,
I don't recall discussions on this topic. I think this change should be reviewed for usability, but it seems on the surface an improvement. It's worth filing a shell bug if the discussion here turns out well or goes by with no comment. In fact, we should probably just enable it on mediawiki.org if there's no objection on list.
Note, there's been a lot of research in this area: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Account_Creation_Improvement_Project
I'm not in a good position to summarize this (would need to read it first) ;-), but I imagine that it's at least a little relevant to a decision on this.
I'll see if I can nudge someone more directly involved with usability to comment.
Rob
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Raimond Spekking raimond.spekking@gmail.com wrote:
Since MediaWiki 1.18 we have the variable $wgUseCombinedLoginLink [1] which is set to true per default.
During edit workshops with students and seniors I registered that new editors are confused about the combined login page. They tried to register new accounts on the login page.
Surely, these observations are not representative but I think that the usability could be improved by setting $wgUseCombinedLoginLink=false
If I missed a prior discussion about this issue I apologize and would be happy if someone could point me to the discussion.
Otherwise I suggest to set $wgUseCombinedLoginLink to false for all WMF wikis.
Raimond.
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgUseCombinedLoginLink
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