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Registration page design

I was a bit confused when reaching Phabricator registration page after clicking on the Bugzilla banner:

WMF_Phabricator_Registration_Page_2014-11-08 (648×842 px, 55 KB)

It says "You can use your unified Wikimedia account or your Labs/LDAP user to login.". As I have both I didn't know which one to use, only to find out later I can actually merge the two. If Wikimedia SUL is preferred, it should be more prominently displayed then the LDAP/Gerrit/Wikitech login form.

This was a reason for confusion (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Phabricator#Why_Wikitech_accounts.3F) so maybe we should include a sentence on the screen to explain which one to use, with a link
to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help#Creating_your_account

User migration

The help page says this:

Your account activity (comments, reports you created, etc) will be merged into your Phabricator account within the next days. Please be patient as this can take quite some time, depending on how active you were in Bugzilla and RT before. After the process to link your previous, imported contributions to your Phabricator account has finished, you will be e.g. able to search for reports in Phabricator that you had created in Bugzilla before Bugzilla's reports were imported into Phabricator.

This process should be somehow integrated into our timeline https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator#Migration_timeline and/or T15 dependencies.

Are we going to create stub accounts for the users who did not register on time? If so, what will be the process of claiming them?

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Just quickly hacked a mock of a nicer design of how the registration page could look like:

Quick_and_dirty_mock_of_the_registration_page (590×1 px, 66 KB)

(Just tweaked few things using DOM Inspector, no real coding)

I clarified how to signup a little on MediaWiki.org.

I agree it would be nice to have a little more visibility on the migration of existing content, particularly for what happens for users who take no action.

P.S. I like the mock.

User migration

The help page says this:

Your account activity (comments, reports you created, etc) will be merged into your Phabricator account within the next days. Please be patient as this can take quite some time, depending on how active you were in Bugzilla and RT before. After the process to link your previous, imported contributions to your Phabricator account has finished, you will be e.g. able to search for reports in Phabricator that you had created in Bugzilla before Bugzilla's reports were imported into Phabricator.

This process should be somehow integrated into our timeline https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator#Migration_timeline and/or T15 dependencies.

Are we going to create stub accounts for the users who did not register on time? If so, what will be the process of claiming them?

This part is not a duplicate of T862: Redesign Phabricator login page: LDAP login too prominent; position of MediaWiki SUL login not prominent enough.

Maybe this is a misunderstanding. There is no "process" or "stub accounts". Users will get their Bugzilla activity assigned as soon as they add the email address(es) they used in Bugzilla. Before or after the migration, it is the same. The only difference is that doing this before the migration will assure you a smooth Day 1, with your post-Bugzilla tasks and comments already linked to your account.

I'm not sure why this got reopened and what exactly is still unclear / needs to get fixed / is requested here. mflaschen might know?