Hi! I've seen (and translated in Asturian) the new messages, and I was in doubt if GENDER could be used in welcomeuser message. I didn't did, just in case, but my guess is that it might be done. Am I right?
Best regards -- Xuacu 2012/11/22 S Page <[email protected]> > Hi there. The Editor Engagement Experiments team wants to improve the > account creation user experience[1]. > > One simple change is after someone successfully creates an account, > instead of showing 'Login successful', make the page show 'Welcome, > NewUser'. We filed a bug[2] and the change is mostly-merged (thanks > Nikerabbit and IAlex) and should roll out with 1.21wmf5 over the next > two weeks. > > This means the existing welcomecreation message splits into new > welcomeuser and welcomecreation-msg messages. If a wiki has > customized its MediaWiki:welcomecreation message then that will > probably need adjustment. > > I thought about removing or replacing welcomecreation but the > extensions ApiSignup and SpecialUserSignup (unused by WMF) and > ./tests/parser/preprocess/ all refer to it. Do developers usually > introduce a new message then obsolete the old one, or cut over in one > commit? > > For your information, the E3 team has more substantial changes to user > login, account creation, and onboarding (welcoming users after account > creation) in development. I'll keep i18n people informed; I hope this > is the right list for the changes. I figure any communication is > better than throwing code onto 863 wikis and letting people figure it > out :-) > > [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editor_engagement_experiments#Projects > [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42215 > > -- > =S Page software engineer on E3 > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-i18n mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n >
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