Account Creation Improvement Project/Resources

This page is currently inactive and is retained for historical reference.
Either the page is no longer relevant, or consensus on its purpose has become unclear. If you want to revive discussion regarding the subject, you should seek broader input via a forum such as the Village pump.

Welcome

Discuss

Participate

You can get involved:

	Spread the word by signing up and getting your community involved.
	Help build new messages for the account creation process by clicking here.
	Discuss the open questions
	Participate in the discussion on the project's talk page
	Use the Toolserver if you have an account and analyse the existing data.

Communication and press coverage

September 2010

Gerard Meijssen: A new #Wikimedia project waiting to happen… (Blog, September 21)
Barry Newstead and others: Question for Hindi Wikipedians (Wikimediaindia-l, September 21)
Lennart Guldbrandsson and others: Increasing the number of new accounts who actually edit (Foundation-l, September 22)
Torsten Kleinz: Wikipedia startet Artikelbewertung (heise-online, September 22)

Mit zahlreichen Projekten versucht die Wikimedia Foundation zusammen mit den internationalen Chaptern die Mitarbeit in der Wikipedia attraktiver zu machen und neue Leserkreise zu erreichen. So kümmert sich eine internationale Arbeitsgruppe darum, den Anmeldeprozess in der Wikipedia zu vereinfachen.

[Account Creation Improvement Project Update] (Wikimedia Technical Blog, April 27)

Ideas and tools

WYSIFTW, a JavaScript-based, WYSIWYG-like tool in development. Implementation of a simpler editing method, without our current wikicode for new editors would drive more contributions.
An idea for tackling the wall of text users see when creating an account, created by User:Mono.
This list is incomplete. Please reach out and help expand the list.