On Sun, 27 May 2012 21:18:26 -0700, Tim Starling <[email protected]>
wrote:
On 28/05/12 03:50, Raimond Spekking wrote:
Since MediaWiki 1.18 we have the variable $wgUseCombinedLoginLink
[1] which is set to true per default.
During edit workshops with students and seniors I registered that
new editors are confused about the combined login page. They
tried to register new accounts on the login page.
Surely, these observations are not representative but I think
that the usability could be improved by setting
$wgUseCombinedLoginLink=false
If I missed a prior discussion about this issue I apologize and
would be happy if someone could point me to the discussion.
Otherwise I suggest to set $wgUseCombinedLoginLink to false for
all WMF wikis.
Can't it be set to false by default?
They were combined to start with because the forms were combined.
Then the developer who split the forms was too lazy to fix the
skins, so for years, everyone who wanted to create an account was
forced to click through the login page. I always figured it was a
bug. Why would anyone want them combined?
-- Tim Starling
+1
I created $wgUseCombinedLoginLink partially due to skinning where some
skins want to have separate links to style in different ways (Skin has a
method that lets a skin override the setting for itself) and also looking
at a number of other websites and finding that we are practically the only
website that does something like that.
I set it to true by default because that was the current expected behavior
and didn't want to bother with the usual backlash from the en.wp community
whenever you touch anything to do with how MW looks or the markup it
outputs.
But if we have found a usability reason to have separate links then I see
absolutely no reason to set it false by default on all wiki.
In fact I'd almost say we could go ahead and delete the setting and make
MW always have two separate links.
--
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
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