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
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