https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30442
--- Comment #25 from Nemo_bis <[email protected]> 2011-10-19 09:06:44 UTC --- (In reply to comment #24) > (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. So what? If they don't, it just means that preferences are ok for them. Or, if you imply that people ignore messages, I wonder how you're going to explain what the gender preference is for. > > > 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. It's not immediately needed. It's very easy for me: we have things which are absolutely needed to create an account (username, password, email for some things), and things which are not (everything else). The former are asked when you create an account, the latter are not. -- 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
