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Provide a link to the user on account creation
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Author: mike.lifeguard+bugs

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When you get edits for an IP, if the action is an account creation, please provide user links for that account. This is a usability issue for when you need to move fast.

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bz19964

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 10:40 PM
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I'm asuming this for accounts creating other accounts.

mike.lifeguard+bugs wrote:

(In reply to comment #1)

I'm asuming this for accounts creating other accounts.

Yes, that's correct.

This isn't really doable the way the new user log message is set up and cu log items are recorded (it still uses an actiontext field whereas RC uses type/action/params to avoid those problems).

I'm not sure if this is still an issue? When you "get edits" from an IP, user accounts created do show the talk, contribs and block links. Unless we want to add more (cf. 50893a2c66a9). Thanks.

The links are shown for the user who "created" the account (object), but not for the user account which "was created" (subject).

If I (User:Huji) create an account User:Huji2, you will see those links for User:Huji, but the part that reads "create account User:Huji2" is plain text with no links to the User:Huji2's user page.

Dreamy_Jazz renamed this task from Please provide user links in Get edits from IP to Provide a link to the user on account creation.Jun 20 2022, 9:02 PM

This is because getPlainActionText() does not link the username in the returned text. Either this waits for the cu_changes to become structured or the plaintext representation wikilinks the username.

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This done via the completion of T324907.