Last modified: 2013-07-18 19:40:58 UTC
With SUL2,[1] we will no longer be serving the signup success page described by welcomecreation-msg. Good riddance! However, this means that other than the email with the confirmation link, we are not informing users that they need to confirm their email address, or if the email send failed. The messages we are throwing out are MediaWiki:Confirmemail_oncreate and MediaWiki:Confirmemail_sendfailed. Email confirmation is such a common workflow that we may be fine with having no extra on-site reminder to do so. Personally I think this is okay, but I want to open this and make sure we get a decision on the record. If we do think an extra reminder is merited, the most elegant way of doing is probably to implement a reminder email after the user fails to confirm their address in a week. 1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Auth_systems/SUL2
(In reply to comment #0) > If we do think an extra reminder is merited, the most elegant way of doing is > probably to implement a reminder email after the user fails to confirm their > address in a week. You could also make use of Echo notifications.
Since email verification is not required to use your account, i'm ok with not having an immediate prompt on the site for now, a reminder echo notification would be great after 24 hours if the user has not verified via the email, or we could do one later prior to the email verification expiring. If we want to do echo notification for this, lets track as a feature request rather than through this bug.
