https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56194

--- Comment #6 from Steven Walling <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> The current text is definitely too long for the primary button (or for any
> button at all), but just changing it to "Reset password" would be a bad idea
> as
> we'd lose any information about how the reset mechanism works on that page.
> The
> information would have to be included elsewhere on the page.
> 
> It might be acceptable to change it to "Send new password" (instead of
> "Email…"), as the former should be easily translateable to other languages,
> while "email" usually can't be translated as a verb and translators have to
> use
> constructs such as "Send me the new password by e-mail" (literal translation
> back to English of the Polish version); the Spanish one is even worse,
> substituting "electronic mail" for "email" (I'm not sure if that's the usual
> translation for Spanish or just a weird thing in this one message).

Can we say "Reset password" for the button, and update the explanatory text at
the top of the form?

Right now it just says: "Fill one of the fields to reset your password."

We could say: "Fill one of the fields to receive a temporary password via
email." which is more accurate.

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