Agreed. However, it should be noted that an account creation API has already been created (and approved), and is currently waiting on dependencies to be merged. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/18127
*--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | [email protected] On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Derric Atzrott < [email protected]> wrote: > >User account creation is something that is pretty critical to the > MediaWiki > >infrastructure. If we're going to be completely revamping the signup page, > it > >should not be done in an extension. > > > >Furthermore, looking at the extension's code now, there are numerous > design > >problems that would need to be fixed if this were to be deployed > (primarily > the > >fact that the entire special page looks pretty much like a copy of > LoginForm's > >account creation interface). > > > >Not to mention that an account creation API is something that the core > needs and > >site admins should not have to rely on an extension to install it. > > > >I'm welcome to a rewrite and refactoring of the LoginForm, if that's a > goal > we > >want to aim towards. > > Still we should take note of the lessons he learned when he made his > extension and apply them to development of a API in the core, should we go > that route. > > I agree that this should be a core feature and not an extension. This > seems > like the sort of thing that many Wikis will need and I'm somewhat surprised > the request for someone to make it doesn't come up more often. > > Thank you, > Derric Atzrott > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
