Motivation
Users who hit the temporary account limits may not understand that they can still edit if they create an account. This task is to inform them about this option exists when they see the message telling them they have reached the temp account limit.
A more elaborate solution for this problem will be worked out through T410386: Prompt user to create a regular account after temp account creation rate limit trip. This task is to simply update the message that users see.
Acceptance criteria
- Adjust the rate limit message to include text and an instrumented link (can use the ?campaign parameter) to take the user to “Special:CreateAccount”. Note that we need to introduce a new message specifically for temp account creation rate limits, since it is currently shared with the regular account creation message, but this is a very small amount of work.
Current message:
Visitors to this wiki using your IP address have created 1 account in the last 10 minutes, which is the maximum allowed in this time period. As a result, visitors using this IP address cannot create any more accounts at the moment. If you are at an event where contributing to Wikimedia projects is the focus, please see [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mass_account_creation#Requesting_temporary_lift_of_IP_cap Requesting temporary lift of IP cap] to help resolve this issue.
Updated message
There have been too many temporary account creation attempts from your IP address recently. Please [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CreateAccount?campaign=temp-rate-limit create an account] to proceed with your edit, or try again later. If you are at an event where contributing to Wikimedia projects is the focus, please see [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mass_account_creation#Requesting_temporary_lift_of_IP_cap Requesting temporary lift of IP cap] to help resolve this issue.