https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30442

--- Comment #26 from Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> 2011-10-19 
09:13:39 UTC ---
> > > 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.

MoodBar, for example, which is rather more visible than that tiny message that
suggests to change preferences.


> > 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.

MoodBar, see above. There's also {{welcome}}, ahem, benvenuta. And many, many
more.

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