Agreed. However, it should be noted that an account creation API has already been created (and approved), and is currently waiting on dependencies to be merged. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/18127
*--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerromeo@gmail.com
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Derric Atzrott < datzrott@alizeepathology.com> wrote:
User account creation is something that is pretty critical to the
MediaWiki
infrastructure. If we're going to be completely revamping the signup page,
it
should not be done in an extension.
Furthermore, looking at the extension's code now, there are numerous
design
problems that would need to be fixed if this were to be deployed
(primarily the
fact that the entire special page looks pretty much like a copy of
LoginForm's
account creation interface).
Not to mention that an account creation API is something that the core
needs and
site admins should not have to rely on an extension to install it.
I'm welcome to a rewrite and refactoring of the LoginForm, if that's a
goal we
want to aim towards.
Still we should take note of the lessons he learned when he made his extension and apply them to development of a API in the core, should we go that route.
I agree that this should be a core feature and not an extension. This seems like the sort of thing that many Wikis will need and I'm somewhat surprised the request for someone to make it doesn't come up more often.
Thank you, Derric Atzrott
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