Account Creation Improvement Project/Research/Step 1

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You can get involved: Spread the word by signing up and getting your community involved. Help build new messages for the account creation process by clicking here. Discuss the open questions Participate in the discussion on the project's talk page Use the Toolserver if you have an account and analyse the existing data. The three steps of the process To create an account on most websites, you go through these 3 steps: you click on a link and choose between logging in and creating a new account you fill out a short form you have a new account and decide where to go next To improve Wikipedia's process for creating an account, we need to look at these three steps separately. On this page, we will look at the first step. On this page, we will look at the second step, and on on this page we will analyse the third step. How do we do this research? You can do what kind of research that you want here, that you think is relevant to the improvement of Wikipedia's account creation. One of the easiest ways to look at this, though, is to compare Wikipedia to other websites - both good and bad, and look at various elements of the respective steps. Comparisons In your comparisons, please include at least the following websites: Wikipedia Facebook LinkedIn Google MSN Yahoo YouTube How do you get to the account creation page you have to click in a link inside the login box to create an account (”Create one”) on Facebook you do not have to go to this page, you have to create an account to have access to the site, they also have the create account as the more prominent one LinkedIn you do not have to go to this page, you have to create an account to have access to the site, they also have the create account as the more prominent one Yahoo has separate links from main page, equally prominent YouTube has separate links from main page, equally prominent Google has no link to create an account, only log in, as Wikipedia has, and then ”Don't have a Google account?” MSN has no link to create an account, only sign in, as Wikipedia has, and then two columns with sign up and sign in, and then link to page with fields ... Other