(1) Confusing user registration in wiki

[Thomas von der Elbe]

Perfect! This was fast!

> If you see any bugs, please let me know.
>
If I create an account, then logout again and then login:
1. My Firefox automatically fills in the email-field with my username 
(like before)
2. After pressing "Login": "Login error You have not specified a valid 
user name." (but it did work before) - now it really wants the email-adress

- best would be, if it still worked like before. second best, if the 
failure-message would speak about mail-adress instead of user-name

And another thing: It would be good in the registration to have a 
message like in the Votorola-login: "your email-adress will be visible 
to other users"

Thomas

>>> So everyone agrees this is problem #1:
>>> http://u.zelea.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup
>>> Two solutions are:
>>>
>>>  A. Getting rid of the Username field, because it's redundant with the
>>>     E-mail field.  (Thomas proposed this).  I could do it as a proper
>>>     MediaWiki extension, so other pollwiki admins can easily duplicate
>>>     our setup.
>>>
>>>     (a week, low risk)
>>>       
>
> Help pages have yet to be updated.  User registration will no longer
> require any documentation.  (In fact, it's easier than vanilla
> MediaWiki.  There's one less field to enter:
> http://u.zelea.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup
>
> Users who registered without proper "mailish" names can no longer log
> in to their accounts: http://u.zelea.com/w/Special:ListUsers
>
> If anyone is curious, the code is here:
> http://u.zelea.com/system/host/u/var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki-c/extensions/MailishUsername
>
> Thanks to Thomas for suggesting this solution,