On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Daniel Friesen <[email protected]>wrote:
> - To have a combined form like that you have to create a brand new special > page; you can't do that within our current Special:UserLogin > - We don't provide a way to simply override the special page used for > login links > Hence with these two facts that means it's impossible to make an alternate > login form without replacing stuff inside the personal_urls by using hooks > and constructing your own arrays to put in the list. > Wikia doesn't even bother with hooks, they just make core modifications > for this stuff. > Just FYI, work is being done to decouple account creation from Special:UserLogin. The initial SignupAPI extension was a GSOC project, and it's currently undergoing code review etc. This should allow us to implement some long overdue improvements, such as: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34447 The relevant bug: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36225 Steven _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
