tanstaafl: Thanks for fixing up the
Create a knowledge base account page.
It seems to me the new user KB experience isn't quite what we want, still, so I'm going to make some suggestions here (since I properly can't edit Mediawiki: space protected pages).
I merged the duplicate text about account creation from the above page and also
MediaWiki:Loginprompt into a new
Template:KB account. Can you please edit MediaWiki:Loginprompt to transclude the common text (so there is one place and only one place to edit the text, so it won't get out of sync again):
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{{KB account}}
You must have [[cookies]] enabled to log in to the {{SITENAME}}.
(A separate template is required since both the Create page and the Loginprompt page have different text after the common message.)
I think a relatively common case is someone is on a KB page and sees the Edit button in the sidebar and clicks it. They then get:
Login required to edit
You have to login to edit pages.
Which is not particular helpful for people without KB accounts, and kind of misleading. Let's give those people the quickest exit path possible by showing them the message earlier rather than later.
So can you change
MediaWiki:Whitelistedittitle to:
A KB account is required to edit; and you must login
and more usefully, change the text, which is in
MediaWiki:Whitelistedittext to:
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If you have a KB account, you have to [[Special:Userlogin|login]] to edit pages.
{{KB account}}
to clarify the message for accountholders, and then transclude the aforementioned template.
Lastly, I think it's confusing that the right sidebar offers "Log in/Create Account", since no one except sysops can create accounts.
I'd suggest changing it to just "Log in," although I recognize that means that sysops who are used to looking for the words "Create Account" would no longer see it — but most likely they look to the
Create a knowledge base account instructions anyhow, which links explictly to Special:Userlogin, so the account creation reminder via the sidebar is unnecessary. If you agree, can you change
MediaWiki:Userlogin to:
Login
?
(Alternatively maybe could be "Login / create account (sysops only)"?)
I think that covers all the cases I ran into when I was trying to figure out how to get a KB account. Thanks!