User:SPage (WMF)/old/Onboarding new Wikipedians-Engineering


 * Notes on early iteration of GettingStarted from December 2012.

Useful links

 * Extension:Onboarding
 * JSFiddle with prototype HTML/CSS
 * Special:GettingStarted on WMFLabs
 * GuidedTour test

UserLoginComplete
array( &$user, &$injected_html ) );

this is where CentralAuth puts up its row of icons

BeforeWelcomeCreation
array( &$onboarding_msg, &$injected_html )

This is where extensions can supply a custom message; GettingStarted points to w:MediaWiki:gettingstarted-msg.

Other hooks

 * Manual:Hooks/AddNewAccount

Other issues
Is there any interaction with the new account creation API from Tyler Romeo that Terry approved for core?
 * probably not.

The "return to [Page]" problem
If on account creation the user goes straight to GettingStarted, we want it to have a nice Agora button saying
 * [ No thanks, back to Page I was on before account creation]

But the current piece of HTML  Return to Page I was on. is generated by core code and added to the page by Special:Userlogin. As the comment in E3Experiments/experiments/onboarding/welcomecreation.js notes:


 * This link is generated by OutputPage::addReturnTo which hardcodes message 'returnto', which in English is "Return to $1."
 * Besides specials/Userlogin.php, addReturnTo is also called by SpecialChangeEmail.php, SpecialMobileFeedback.php, SpecialEditWatchlist.php, FileDeleteForm.php, etc.

To get this to be a button in Special:GettingStarted
 * core code needs to supply the information to the redirect in query strings. It was already
 * Extension:Onboarding should implement a similar makeReturnButton, so that this could be offered to OutputPage as more of the site gets Agora-fied.
 * unlike addReturnTo, the text around the link should be a passed-in message