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Bug 46009 - Special:PasswordReset should ask only for e-mail address
Special:PasswordReset should ask only for e-mail address
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
User login and signup (Other open bugs)
1.21.x
All All
: Unprioritized normal (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2013-03-12 00:41 UTC by Juliusz Gonera
Modified: 2013-03-12 06:52 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Juliusz Gonera 2013-03-12 00:41:33 UTC 
The message on Special:PasswordReset says:

"If you are certain of your e-mail, but not your username, only enter your e-mail."

Why would anyone enter their username then?
Comment 1 JuneHyeon Bae (devunt) 2013-03-12 05:20:27 UTC 
In MediaWiki, user's email address is private info. 
We should not make it possible for someone to check whether an email is registered.
Comment 2 JuneHyeon Bae (devunt) 2013-03-12 05:22:01 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> In MediaWiki, user's email address is private info. 
> We should not make it possible for someone to check whether an email is
> registered.

and plus, some people can't remind there signup email addess :p
Comment 3 Matthew Flaschen 2013-03-12 05:27:30 UTC 
Note that I wrote the text only on English Wikipedia (it's not in core):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AllMessages?prefix=passwordreset-text

As I said at bug 40040, it takes a little more work to get a good message in core, since there is more variability in the form fields.

JuneHyeon is correct on both counts:

1. Not revealing whether an email is registered, though that is more relevant to bug 46010
2. It sometimes being easier to just enter your username if you are certain of it.
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