Last modified: 2012-10-23 22:08:43 UTC
I created a new test account on en.wikipedia.org [[User:Stink New User]] and was given the opportunity to type in some text to be added to my user page. Surprisingly, when I submitted the form, I was taken to an edit preview on the user page.... with the original sample text instead of the text I wrote! creation action URL including campaign ID: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&action=submitlogin&type=signup&returnto=Main_Page&campaign=ACP1 Text I wrote, replacing the default sample text: ------ Hi, I'm a fake test account created by [[User:Brion VIBBER]]. Occasionally I will log in on this and perform actions for testing purposes, with no administrative priveleges, a small edit count, etc. My work should generally be either harmless or legitimate edits, so please treat me as if I were any other newbie. Thanks! --[[User:Brion VIBBER||brion]] ------ Text visible in the edit box: ------ <!-- BELOW IS THE TEXT ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN CHANGE IT COMPLETELY OR IN PARTS AND THEN COME BACK TO IT. AFTER YOU ARE DONE, SCROLL DOWN A BIT FURTHER AND CLICK "SAVE PAGE".-->{{New user bar}} Replace this example text below with information about you: Hello, my background is in biology, with a main interest in snakes. I speak English and French. In my off-time, I listen to a lot of music, and I have discovered that Wikipedia is a very good source for information in that department. Hopefully I can help make it even better. <!-- NOW, CLICK THE "SAVE PAGE" BUTTON. CONGRATULATIONS, YOU'VE JUST MADE YOUR FIRST EDIT TO WIKIPEDIA. --> ----- Pasting the text manually into the edit box of course resolves this. ;)
Brion: Should this be under "MediaWiki/User login" instead? Not sure why this is under "extensions/[other]".
I guess it belongs/belonged to the extension used to implement the account creation project wizard thing. I'm not super familiar with it...
This bug may be invalid now. I believe this experiment is dead and gone.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 29499 ***