[Wikimedia-l] New account creation and login ready for testing on all projects

Matthew Roth mroth at wikimedia.org
Thu Apr 25 23:40:47 UTC 2013


and here's Steven's blog post:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/25/try-new-login-accountcreation/


On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Steven Walling <swalling at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Today the Editor Engagement Experiments team has ported our new designs for
> account creation and login to the current version of MediaWiki core,
> meaning it is now available for testing on all Wikipedias and Wikimedia
> projects.
>
> The main purpose of starting with an opt-in testing period is to iron out
> any last minute bugs and wait for localizations to catch up before we turn
> it on by default. Testing instructions and background on this project are
> available in our blog post,[1] and we're holding IRC office hours this
> Saturday at 18:00 UTC to discuss things.[2]
>
> I'm in the process of posting locally to Village Pumps as well, targeting
> the top ten Wikipedias and the English version of all other projects. Help
> spread the word if you can. :)
>
> --
> Steven Walling
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/
>
> 1. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/25/try-new-login-accountcreation/
> 2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
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