[Wikimedia-l] IRC office hours about upcoming account creation and login redesigns

[Steven Walling]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Steven Walling <swalling at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> As you might know, the Editor Engagement Experiments team spent several
> weeks in
> 2012-13 testing changes to the account creation page, aiming to make
> it easier for new editors to join our projects.[1]
>
> Soon you'll see wider announcements on-wiki and on the blog about the
> "soft launch" of the interface changes we've built now that testing is
> over. The short version: for roughly a week, we're initially launching
> the changes in MediaWiki core on an opt-in basis, so that editors can
> test the localizations and hunt for bugs on their home wiki without
> potentially disrupting the essential functions of login and account
> creation.
>
> This Saturday the 27th at 18:00 UTC,[2] we'll be hosting IRC office
> hours to talk about these changes with anyone interested. Please join
> us. :-)
>
> --
> Steven Walling
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/
>
> 1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Account_creation_user_experience
> 2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
>

As a reminder, this is happening in about 15 minutes.

-- 
Steven Walling
https://wikimediafoundation.org/