[Commons-l] Making a home wiki field in user login

[Florian Straub]

"peter green" <plugwash at P10Link.net> wrote on Saturday, February 17, 2007 
5:20 AM:

>> Idea is nice, but we could use categories/userpages for that.
>> Dont forget, we are just another wiki.
> and some people do use thier userpage for that, but the vast majority 
> don't.
>
> we need to get the home wiki information at signup time because with drive 
> by users we may not get another chance.
>
> i think we may even need to go as far as making it mandatory to specify 
> username, password and wiki for an account on another wikimedia wiki at 
> signup time. If we don't make it mandatory then the very people we need 
> the info for the most are the type that are least likely to give it to us.

Just a try, but what do you think about this:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Welcomecreation


Best regards,

Flo