The placeholder text "Enter your username" is not appropriate when the person does not yet have a username (type=signup).
The placeholder text "Enter a password"/"Enter your password" has been customised for type=signup ; the same should be done for the username field.
Version: 1.22.0
Severity: minor
Hmm. The following page suggests the form placeholder text "Enter a desired username" was used.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Account_creation_user_experience/Strings/Experiment
I've tested on a few other wmf wikis and they all have "Enter your username" on type=signup.
swalling wrote:
(In reply to comment #0)
The placeholder text "Enter your username" is not appropriate when the person
does not yet have a username (type=signup).The placeholder text "Enter a password"/"Enter your password" has been
customised for type=signup ; the same should be done for the username field.
Enter your *desired* username is implied I think, since the person obviously knows they're creating an account. We moved away from not using possessives (e.g. "a username" vs. "your username") because it needs to be clear that we're talking about something that represents your identity on the given project.
The strings page you link to was part of an A/B test and wasn't the final spec, hence the /Experiment name. Sorry for any confusion.
This has been fixed for some time as part of bug 43172.