https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30442
--- Comment #27 from Nemo_bis <[email protected]> 2011-10-19 09:31:30 UTC --- (In reply to comment #26) > > > > 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. Sorry, I don't get how this reply is relevant. > > > 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. No. They're not immediately needed /for account creation/. You can have gender-relevant messages before, simultaneously or (soon) after account creation, but this won't make them immediately needed for account creation itself. (Besides, I don't see where MoodBar is shown in current implementation.) -- 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
