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Bug 42253 - Link the account creation message
Link the account creation message
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Special pages (Other open bugs)
1.21.x
All All
: Low enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: spage
: easy
Depends on:
Blocks:
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Reported: 2012-11-19 05:56 UTC by Dan Jacobson
Modified: 2013-08-05 01:31 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


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Description Dan Jacobson 2012-11-19 05:56:48 UTC
On index.php?title=特殊:用戶登錄&action=submitlogin&type=signup
Wikisysop creates an account  for a user, and sees

"Account created
The user account for Habo has been created. "

Well, don't you think those words could link to User:Habo and / or his Talk page or something?
Comment 1 spage 2012-12-08 02:38:46 UTC
The second line is accountcreatedtext => 'The user account for $1 has been created.'

Yes, it could usefully have links "Habo (Talk)".  Both would likely be redlinks as the user didn't exist before.  I tried changing MediaWiki:accountcreatedtext to:

The user account for [[{{ns:User}}:$1|$1]] ([[{{ns:User talk}}:$1|talk]]) has been created.

on my local wiki and it worked!

So wikis can make this change. As to whether it *should* be in core, does the convenience of providing these links outweigh the confusion from the message getting technical and adding redlinks?  Note that this message appears when someone who's already logged in creates an additional account, for someone else or as a sockpuppet. I would expect mostly advanced users do this.

Anyway the core change is Gerrit change #37606
Comment 2 Gerrit Notification Bot 2013-06-11 07:22:03 UTC
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/37606 (Gerrit Change I4e88829d8665c5c61a59877962a8a14b55c91aa0) | change APPROVED and MERGED [by jenkins-bot]

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