Extension:CustomUserSignup

This extension was removed from English Wikipedia in 2012-08. Extension:Campaigns restores the ability to track successful account creations from different campaigns, and Extension:GettingStarted presents a better user experience to encourage new users to edit (but not yet customized for different campaigns).

Purpose
This extension lets you customize the messages seen in the user login process based on passing a "campaign" variable in to the Special:UserLogin page. This campaign variable sticks with the user throughout the account creation process, and changes the messages the user sees throughout the process. Because user messages can be edited from the MediaWiki namespace, this effectively allows administrators of a wiki to customize the new account creation process.

The messages that can be overridden are the ones found in includes/templates/Userlogin.php, overridden by a message of the format customusertemplate-{campaign}-{message}

Installation
To install this extension, add the following to LocalSettings.php:

Example
The text at the end of the signup page is generated by a message called 'signupend'.

If you wanted users in the "foo" campaign to see something different, you would append to the Special:UserLogin URL.

Now, you would edit MediaWiki:customusertemplate-foo-signupend to say whatever you'd like, and this message will only be shown to user in campaign "foo".

ClickTracking dependency
Using the ClickTracking extension and its bucketing capabilities, one can set up buckets and add campaigns to test how different account creation flows perform, depending on the goals of the account creation. This is the goal of the Account Creation Improvement Project but can also be useful to customize the login/account creation flow for specific outreach initiatives, e.g. a workshop or e-mail invitation.