https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56455

--- Comment #34 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> ---
For the record, MediaWiki:Signupstart and MediaWiki:Signupend were removed in
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/67233> by S Page and Matt Flaschen. The
messages were left in messages.inc, MessagesEn.php, and MessagesQqq.php, but
the calling code was removed. Rather than being called directly from
includes/specials/SpecialUserlogin.php, the messages were called from
includes/templates/Userlogin.php and includes/templates/Usercreate.php.

This means that in addition to being a breaking change (that continues to be
undocumented at [[mw:Account creation user experience/Strings]], which is
referenced from the 1.22 release notes), this particular change is especially
annoying to track down because:

* it uses a template system that no other part of the site interface uses and
* the message keys still exist in 1.22, however they're simply not used
anywhere.

I'd forgotten why I was so annoyed earlier this year at this series of changes
by the now-defunct "E3" team and I've now re-remembered what an unacceptable,
shameful, and apparently unsupervised development process took place. I hope
this issue can be corrected prior to the release of 1.22.0 final.

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