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Temporary accounts onboarding dialog: Update copy on first screen
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Description

Background

The current copy doesn't explain why temporary accounts have been introduced (i.e. increased privacy). We would like to make this clear and improve the readability of the first screen.

Specification

Copy to use (doc):

To protect user privacy, {SITENAME} is no longer publicly displaying the IP addresses of logged-out editors.

Instead, logged-out editors will be given automatically generated usernames linked to temporary accounts, and their IP addresses will only be visible to staff and users who need to see them to deal with vandalism and abusive behavior.

When a temporary account is created for a logged-out editor, a cookie will be set in that editor’s browser. That temporary account will then be attributed to all subsequent edits, even if the IP address of that editor changes.

Mockup

26 Jun 25 - Onboarding temp accounts.png (799×1 px, 262 KB)

Acceptance criteria

  • Copy is updated for first screen of onboarding dialog

Event Timeline

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For non-WMF wikis, I went with the following text:

image.png (778×1 px, 104 KB)

The differences are:

  • All WMF specific links (i.e. to foundation.wikimedia.org) are removed
  • "staff and users" is replaced with "trusted community members", which was the phrasing used to describe those users in a more wiki-ambiguous way in the old version of the message

I'll use the proposed text exactly as it stands for WMF wikis.

Change #1164409 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dreamy Jazz; author: Dreamy Jazz):

[mediawiki/extensions/CheckUser@master] Onboarding dialog: Update content of first step per design feedback

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1164409

Change #1164417 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dreamy Jazz; author: Dreamy Jazz):

[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaMessages@master] CheckUser Onboarding dialog: Sync changes to override

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1164417

Change #1164409 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/CheckUser@master] Onboarding dialog: Update content of first step per design feedback

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1164409

Change #1164417 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaMessages@master] CheckUser Onboarding dialog: Sync changes to override

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1164417

For QA, I would suggest checking that:

  • When WikimediaMessages and CheckUser is installed, the message matches the specification defined in the task description
  • When just CheckUser is installed, the message is similar to the specification defined in the task description with any WMF-specific links removed

I think we can skip QA on this given that it's less complex and the queue size of the current QA column.