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Whatamidoing (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Can I interest you in a free account? The main advantage for you (and me ;-) is that you could file your bug reports and feature requests directly in Phabricator, so the devs will see them sooner.

197.218.91.181 (talkcontribs)

Ha, I've long since experienced account fatigue. Every service wants an account, a simple school, a job, a bank, a library, an OS, a browser, a cellphone, an email (or two), in a future with "smart" homes we'll probably need one for the toilet :). Each with different identifiers, and obviously different passwords.

No offense to wikimedia, but not supporting email login is a big issue. If wikimedia supported email logins (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T30085) then I'd create one in a heartbeat and avoid remembering yet another username...

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talkcontribs)

I can certainly understand that. Logins last for a year (unless you clear cookies), so it's less of a hassle than average, but "less of a hassle" is not "hassle-free".

While I'm already here, has anyone ever pointed out the existence of https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Work_with_us to you? Much of the staff (including me) is 100% remote.

197.218.90.233 (talkcontribs)

> , but "less of a hassle" is not "hassle-free".

Exactly. Login for a year only works if one rarely changes browsers or devices.

> While I'm already here, has anyone ever pointed out the existence 

Not really, and thanks for the idea, but I think anyone working for Wikimedia needs nerves of steel, and a lot of patience (or to avoid editors entirely) to deal with the huge amount of editors and non-editors with a severe case of issues of entitlement (that's why my ideas are labelled suggestions and not "requests"). That's without including the whole drama related to wikipedia. Just recently, wikipedia has is now banned in turkey. :)

Really, I think Wikimedia should look at some of extensions from other wikis. Shoutwiki or wikia seem to have a much improved feedback form that requires email, contains forms related to issues or suggestions, and allows submitting structured feedback related to the error without the whole fuss over learning phabricator or wikitext.

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