https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30442
--- Comment #24 from Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> 2011-10-19 08:26:31 UTC --- (In reply to comment #23) > (In reply to comment #7) > > [...] We could probably comprise and > > have a "Now that you have a account don't forget you can change your > > preferences" type message. > > We already have such a message. And it's quite strong: it looks like you can't > start editing without adjusting your preferences! ... Except you can. Are there statistics about people who actually do what that message asks them to? I suspect that very few. > The MediaWiki signup page asks only the essential information to create an > account, username and password, and it stresses that you don't need to provide > email. One thing it doesn't ask is language: are we seriously going to ask in > what /gender/ the user wants to be addressed while not asking in what > /language/, which seems a bit more impacting on the user interface to me? If someone creates an account in the Arabic Wikipedia, it's relatively safe to assume that she or he wants Arabic as her or his default language. Assuming a gender, however, is impossible, even though it is immediately needed. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- 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
