Last modified: 2013-12-23 19:29:58 UTC
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.
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.
(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.
How about Enter Username: ?
This has been fixed for some time as part of bug 43172. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 43172 ***
