https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56455
--- Comment #19 from Steven Walling <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #17) > (In reply to comment #15) > > (In reply to comment #13) > > > Funny enough, I thought this was simply an oversight made during the > > > switchover, now I'm kind of pissed off. Just suck it up and design in a > > > solution to this problem and stop shitting on the third party users. > > > > I proposed a solution already in comment #4. To restate: Make a message like > > MediaWiki:Signup-disclaimers message and set it to blank as default. Fill it > > in > > on Labs. Problem solved. > > Right, so un-remove the thing that was already there most likely for reasons > just like this? Anyway, yes, that's an acceptable solution. Making a message named something like "signupstart" that does not denote its purpose is a terrible idea, which is why it was removed in the first place. Every non-essential piece of text is a distraction and an impediment to people signing up quickly and painlessly. This has a very real and lasting negative impact on users of the signup form. There's an obvious need for adding legal disclaimers to the signup page on Labs. Let's do that. There is not a clear use case for anything else. No one has made clear why it's a good idea to have generic blank MediaWiki messages lying around essential parts of Core. Encouraging site admins to add random cruft to one of the most important forms on any wiki is not okay, which is precisely why the message was removed. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
