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Bug 47695 - Improve message for attempted login for a non-existent username
Improve message for attempted login for a non-existent username
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
User login and signup (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Unprioritized enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2013-04-26 00:10 UTC by Thehelpfulone
Modified: 2013-04-26 00:28 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Thehelpfulone 2013-04-26 00:10:27 UTC 
When I logged in without a username that exists, I got the message "There is no user by the name "Thehelpfulone3". Check your spelling, or go to Wikipedia's signup page to create a new user account."

"Wikipedia's signup page" links to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup. Can we change the wording from "Wikipedia's signup page" to something better? I'm open to suggestions, but as a first idea: "click here to create a new user account"?
Comment 1 Matthew Flaschen 2013-04-26 00:28:20 UTC 
This is not a software issue.  It's English Wikipedia's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Nosuchuser override.  For reference, the software default is:

There is no user by the name "$1".
Usernames are case sensitive.
Check your spelling, or [[Special:UserLogin/signup|create a new account]].

You can certainly propose to change English Wikipedia's at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Nosuchuser or e.g. the village pump.
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