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**Feature summary** (what you would like to be able to do and where): At [Special:CreateAccount](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CreateAccount), the English Wikipedia community displays an interface message (loaded from [MediaWiki:Signupstart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Signupstart)) that warns users signing up about privacy and anonymity. However, this message is poorly displayed and flows quite badly with the rest of the page. Please design Special:CreateAccount to allow local communities to display warnings that are visually well displayed. Also, consider adopting default text similar to the English Wikipedia privacy text. **Use case(s)** (list the steps that you performed to discover that problem, and describe the actual underlying problem which you want to solve. Do not describe only a solution): The English Wikipedia community, as described above. To see the problem, load [Special:CreateAccount](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CreateAccount) on the English Wikipedia. **Benefits** (why should this be implemented?): Currently, the signup page has some hardcoded stuff and some user-defined stuff. The two portions are visually very different and off-putting. Improving the visual design would make the signup process smoother and more pleasant.

At [Special:CreateAccount](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CreateAccount), the English Wikipedia community displays an interface message (loaded from [MediaWiki:Signupstart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Signupstart)) that warns users signing up about privacy and anonymity: > Your username will be public. > Consider using an anonymous username, not your real name. > If you use your real name as your username, your real name will not be private and will not be able to be made private later. However, this message is poorly displayed and flows quite badly with the rest of the page. The hardcoded and user-defined portions of the page are visually very different, which is off-putting. Improving the visual design would make the signup process smoother and more pleasant. Please design Special:CreateAccount to allow local communities to display warnings that are visually well displayed. Also, consider adopting default text similar to the English Wikipedia privacy text.

**Feature summary** (what you would like to be able to do and where):At [Special:CreateAccount](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CreateAccount), the English Wikipedia community displays an interface message (loaded from [MediaWiki:Signupstart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Signupstart)) that warns users signing up about privacy and anonymity: > Your username will be public. > Consider using an anonymous username, not your real name. > If you use your real name as your username, your real name will not be private and will not be able to be made private later. At [Special:CreateAccount](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CreateAccount)However, this message is poorly displayed and flows quite badly with the rest of the page. The hardcoded and user-defined portions of the page are visually very different, the English Wikipedia community displays an interface message (loaded from [MediaWiki:Signupstart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Signupstart)) that warns users signing up about privacy and anonymitywhich is off-putting. Improving the visual design would make the signup process smoother and more pleasant. However, this message is poorly displayed and flows quite badly with the rest of the page. Please design Special:CreateAccount to allow local communities to display warnings that are visually well displayed. Also, consider adopting default text similar to the English Wikipedia privacy text. **Use case(s)** (list the steps that you performed to discover that problem, and describe the actual underlying problem which you want to solve. Do not describe only a solution): The English Wikipedia community, as described above. To see the problem, load [Special:CreateAccount](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CreateAccount) on the English Wikipedia. **Benefits** (why should this be implemented?): Currently, the signup page has some hardcoded stuff and some user-defined stuff. The two portions are visually very different and off-putting.Also, Improvconsider adopting the visual design would makedefault text similar to the signup process smoother and more pleasantEnglish Wikipedia privacy text.