Account Creation Improvement Project/Testing content

This page is currently inactive and is retained for historical reference.
Either the page is no longer relevant, or consensus on its purpose has become unclear. If you want to revive discussion regarding the subject, you should seek broader input via a forum such as the Village pump.

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.

On this page, we have written the content for the new account creation process pages. Read more about the background.

Right now, we are testing two versions on English Wikipedia:

These versions are compared to the original one, and will be tweaked and changed regularly for the remainder of the test.

NOTE: We are aware that the pages look very different on the various language versions. For briefness' sake we are keeping it to English first, and then translate and test each version against each other. If you have any ideas from other language versions that you think we should test, please translate into English and put it up as a separate version below.

What happens next?

Once we determine which solutions produce the best results, we work on them to make them better-looking, and hopefully we can show enough improvement over the existing versions by July that many language versions of Wikipedia (and its sister project) will want to roll these changes out.

What you can help with

find good pages that we can link to based on Frank's proposal

Lennart's version
- Step 1
- Step 2 (including form code, where it can be changed and test)
- Step 3
  - subpages Starting editing and Adding image
Frank's version

You can also:

Take a look at the existing account creation pages (marked "Original version" in the links below)
Create your own versions, with elements that you think are important. Do not worry about design but concentrate on the text and the other elements. Link them from this page in the list below.
Discuss the other versions on their respective talk pages and suggest changes to make them even better.
Add your assumptions and expectations of what the results will be

Login form

See also some comparisons

Account creation form

User page

Parts to use or admire

See also some comparisons

Confirmation

MediaWiki:Welcomecreation. See pl.wiki experience.

Original version
Redesign (2011.02.22 - 02.24)
Polish input box version (2011.02.24 - 02.26)
'Options' version (2011.02.28 - 03.02)
Video version (2011.03.02 - 03.08)
Easy steps version (2011.03.08 - 03.11)
Bookshelf version (2011.03.11 - 03.14)
Video walkthrough (2011.03.14 - 03.18)
Did you know version (2011.03.18 - 04.01)

Left to do

mod2 version

Email welcome

Lennart proposed an improvement to the system email sent to users when they create an account. See also foundation-l.