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When a temporary user clicks on "Exit session" the resulting success page says they "are now logged out"
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Description

Temporary accounts have the link to logout replaced with a Exit session link. This makes it clear that the user isn't actually logged in to something that is permanent and that they cannot log back in after performing the action.

However, when clicking this link a temporary account will have the following page appear. This may be confusing to a user that has exited a temporary account session, because the wording for the action they have taken has changed.

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Steps to replicate the issue
  1. Make an edit while logged out to get a temporary account
  2. Click on the User icon and then click Exit session

What happens?:
The page shown to the user after clicking the button describes that the user has "logged out"

What should have happened instead?:
The page should instead reflect that the user exited a session

Event Timeline

kostajh added subscribers: KColeman-WMF, Niharika, kostajh.

IMO it would be OK to leave as is. I believe in communications and documentation about temp accounts, we are telling users and communities that temporary account users are "logged-in" to their temporary account.

cc @KColeman-WMF @Niharika

I agree that it's slightly confusing. I think we should be consistent with the title, and also clarify that they are logged out of the temporary account:

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Dreamy_Jazz set the point value for this task to 1.

Should be easy to fix, so adding to the current sprint.

Should be easy to fix, so adding to the current sprint.

It's easy to change, but adding two new translation strings, which is more burden on volunteers who will make the translations. I'm not sure if it's worth it, but no objection either.

Change #1072245 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dreamy Jazz; author: Dreamy Jazz):

[mediawiki/core@master] Customise Special:UserLogout success message for temporary account

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1072245

Change #1072245 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] Customise Special:UserLogout success message for temporary account

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1072245

Djackson-ctr subscribed.

QA has been completed and the new design change(s) have been implemented (Per the ticket Descripton: The page should instead reflect that the user exited a session).

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