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Have a short link to the signup page
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We want a short url to the sign up page to make it easier for users to signup and to make it simpler to share the signup page.

Idea: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/signup -> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup&returnto=Help:Getting+Started

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 1:20 AM
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swalling wrote:

(In reply to comment #2)

See also http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Account_creation_user_experience

It is coming soon to mediawiki.org. Wikitech could follow.

Just to confirm: changing the URLs is not something we did in the version we're soft launching this week. It's good additional enhancement to consider though.

Well, we aren't changing the URL, just providing a shortlink that can redirect to it. It makes it easier to share.

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It's better, indeed.

Maybe this is not as big of an issue as I thought it was back in the day. Feel free to decline.

Okay. Let's not start creating custom apache configs for specific mediawiki pages on a per-site basis, especially just for wikitech