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This message appears at the top of every page of users not logged in when editing. I've added links to IP address, the history, and to the log-in screen. Thanks! Flcelloguy ( A note?) 23:01, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
— Omegatron 00:01, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
"You are not logged in. You are free to edit pages; be aware that your IP address will be recorded in this page's edit history, which is accessible by anyone and can be used to reveal your true identity. Registering an account allows you to post under a pseudonym instead." — Omegatron 01:15, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
In the past week I've had to move no less than 7 articles created by anon users to the article namespace. Should we include a namespace check that points them to articles for creation? Kimchi. sg 10:37, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
I was thinking that it chould display the anon IP address along with a link to the anon's talk page. Something like "Your IP address, which can be found [[Special:Mytalk|here]], which will be recorded in this page's edit history". As it currently stands, it is exceedingly hard to find your own IP address and as thus, many anons (especially shared IPs) are unaware of their vandalism notices (usually thinking that their vandalism is acceptable). ~ Flame vip e r 13:35, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
Actually, it isn't. On Uncyclopedia it is, likely because they use an older version of MediaWiki. ~ Flame vip e r Who's a Peach? 17:37, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
The link to your talk page is already functional. ~ Flame vip e r Who's a Peach? 17:36, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Per above discussion, I have taken the liberty of writing a new text for the contents of this page.
You are not currently logged in. While you are free to edit without logging in, your IP address (viewable here) will be recorded in this page's edit history. Creating an account will conceal your IP address and provide you with many other benefits.
The raw code:
You are not currently [[Special:Userlogin|logged in]]. While you are free to edit without logging in, your [[IP address]] (viewable [[Special:Mytalk|here]]) will be recorded in this page's <span class="plainlinks"> [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|action=history}} edit history]</span>. Creating an account will conceal your IP address and provide you with many other [[Wikipedia:Why create an account?|benefits]].
Cheers!
~ Flame vip e r Who's a Peach? 17:40, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
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(Topic moved from Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Reducing "unintentional vandalism" on advice.)
I would like to suggest that an augmented version of the text "For testing, please use the sandbox instead.", which currently appears in the edit window in a place where no-one would ever see it (least of all casual experimenters), is promoted up the page to go immediately beneath the edit buttons, so that this section reads:
The aim is to discourage non-malicious users from unintentionally corrupting pages by entering random characters etc. and then saving the page to "see what happens". I'm hoping that this area of the screen will -- just about -- bear one more line of text. Any thoughts?
Matt 22:20, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
(Undo indent) Excellent. I just had another thought actually. If you want to test out how something will appear in an article, then in practice it is so much easier to use the Preview button than mess around with the sandbox. If you can't get it to work, or you don't like the results, then you just navigate away without saving. I wonder if it might be worth trying to explicitly mention this in the message? Otherwise people might get into the habit of thinking they have to use the sandbox, when really they don't. Downside is that the message will get longer and more complicated, and I can't think of a really neat and concise way of expressing it right now. Matt 17:36, 27 April 2007 (UTC).
I think we should emphasize that your IP address and the time and date of your edits will be freely visible to anyone, and recorded forever and ever. I think this would discourage at least a small portion of the vandalism (from high school libraries and the like; yes, you can be tracked down from this information, kids). Currently it says:
You are not currently logged in. While you are free to edit without logging in, your IP address (viewable on your talkpage, where you can check messages sent to your IP) will be recorded in this page's edit history. Creating an account will conceal your IP address and provide you with many other benefits.
How about this?
You are not currently logged in. While you are free to edit without logging in, your IP address will be recorded publicly, along with the time and date, in this page's edit history. It is sometimes possible for others to identify you with this information. Creating an account will conceal your IP address and provide you with many other benefits. Messages sent to your IP can be viewed on your talkpage.
Whether it helps chill some vandalism or not, it's still good to spell this out for newcomers. Most people aren't too technically-savvy. — Omegatron 05:01, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
"can be used by others to identify you"? — Omegatron 18:46, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
I'd suggest something like "...will conceal your IP address - within reason - and..."-- Rambutan ( talk) 18:03, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
It's an improvement. People have the right to know this. A.Z. 00:00, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
This really looks like something that will backfire. We probably want vandals to edit anonymously so that it's easier for us to track them down. I don't quite see the positive in a move that will encourage the creation of vandalism-only accounts. Once a clueless vandal realizes that it takes 10 seconds to register a new account the time we lose with that vandal increases dramatically. Plus the warning message has an odd Orwellian tone to it that is likely to discourage positive contributions. I say let the clueless remain clueless. Good editors will eventually register an account. Vandals, hopefully, will continue to edit anonymously, unknowingly allowing us to be much more efficient in blocking them. Pascal.Tesson 20:28, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
{{ editprotected}} Would it be possible to make the link to Special:Mytalk more noticeable, to help make up for the failure of the new messages bar to work consistently or reliably for anons? That way they see an obvious link to their talk page whenever they hit ?--VectorPotential Talk 23:57, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
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Please reinstate the recent edit by Misza13 which was reverted. While anonymous users do not have a stylesheet page on Wikipedia, it is perfectly possible to create and use a stylesheet locally, for any website, Wikipedia included; without this attribute, there is no way to refer to this message using CSS -- 86.142.251.242 10:22, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
This didn’t show up when I wasn’t logged in: “Please do not save test edits. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox.” The following edit should be done, since the main sandbox sometimes has lost it’s links to the other sandboxes:
{{
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To experiment, use a sandbox:
Main Sandbox |
Tutorial Sandbox 1 |
Tutorial Sandbox 2 |
Tutorial Sandbox 3 |
Tutorial Sandbox 4 |
Tutorial Sandbox 5
For a sandbox of your own,
create a user subpage. Thank you.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Chuck Marean ( talk • contribs)
I've proposed a addition to the warning. Please see this discussion at WP:VPR for more information. D.M.N. ( talk) 11:53, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
In an attempt to clarify the benefits, and hopefully deter unconstructive edits with the note about shared ip's I came up with the following wording ( before I'd found the talk page ), anyway here it is in full for your delictation and picking over...might have some juicy bits in it? 19:58, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
You are not currently logged in, so Wikipedia will use your IP address to record your edits in this page's history and to post messages on this IP's talk page (these may also be read by anyone using the same computer or shared network). Creating an account, amongst other benefits, conceals your IP address and allows messages to sent directly to you, independent of the computer you login from.
Do not save test edits to articles, please experiment by copy and pasting to a sandbox first.
L∴V 21:15, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
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Please make this to an editnotice, change from {{ ombox}} to {{ editnotice}}. Xenus ( talk) 17:57, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
Give the box a background color so that I do not miss it as easily (because I just did once again). de.wikipedia for example uses a light blue, but I think the strong orange as in Template:SharedIPEDU fits best. — j.engelh ( talk) 11:35, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
/* Edit window background. */
textarea {
background: #FFFBF0; /* Light beige. */
}
{{
editprotected}}
Please replace:
You are not currently [[Special:UserLogin|logged in]].
with
You are not currently [{{fullurl:Special:UserLogin|returnto={{FULLPAGENAMEE}}&returntoquery=action%3Dedit}} logged in].
This will give a login link that returns to the edit page. Since this interface message is shown as an edit notice during editing we can assume the action=edit. Krinkle ( talk) 22:29, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
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Please make a wiki link to IP address, or otherwise state in the notice that an IP address can be used to determine a person's physical location. Not all anonymous editors know what an IP address is and what can be done with it. jfd34 ( talk) 05:58, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
Hey all! So, as you may be aware if you use the Vector skin, Vibha Bamba, myself and a couple of devs have been poking and prodding at the edit interface recently to try and simplify it. We've made a lot of changes to the actual software, but haven't touched things like this template - we wanted to give it a more considered look, and we certainly didn't want to change anything without getting feedback from the community :).
One of the things we've discovered through things like altering the edit interface is that a lot of people actually gloss over the anonymous editing warning (as evidenced by the need to regularly have oversighters remove contributions made by users who accidentally logged-out). It's something that people tend to dismiss, because it's ever-present and surrounded by a pile of other notices and UI elements. At the same time, the sheer size of the notice means that it can push "critical actions" (save, preview and cancel, for example) below the fold of the page - particularly since it's worth remembering that the warning can stack with others, such as the BLP warning or the protection notice, and fill up the entire screen.
With these things in mind we've made a redesign of the template, as transcluded here.
![]() | You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. Please log in or sign up to have your IP address hidden behind a user name, among other benefits. |
The priorities/thinking behind it:
As always, we're grateful for any and all feedback - this doc provides quick guidelines on the type of feedback that we can constructively use. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 20:02, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
Okeyes (WMF), can you or an admin update the anon edit warning icon with this new one if it's ok with you? I cropped out the sides and compressed it so it's smaller/optimized. Thanks - M0rphzone ( talk) 22:53, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
This is not an edit request, but this question is related to this page. πr2 ( t • c) 01:08, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
The template provides a ?returnto
in the query string so that after creating an account the user will get a link to return to the page he or she was attempting to edit.
But it links to
Special:CreateAccount, which redirects and loses the query string.
The fix is to link to
Special:UserLogin/signup, which isn't a redirect and will preserve the returnto URL. You could instead use Special:Userlogin?type=signup, but I think the former is better.
While I'm here, let's be consistent and say "Create an account" which is the link on every page and the most popular phrasing, instead of "sign up/register/enroll/etc".
We should create a {{ Createacct-link}} template that fabricates links to _Create an account_ and makes it easier to track them all.-- S Page (WMF) ( talk) 07:01, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
Hey all,
Recently my team enabled Extension:Campaigns, which makes it easy to figure out how many people sign up via a link, by adding a bit to URLs like "?campaign=test". This functionality has been around in previous forms for several years, under names like CustomUserSignup.
Anyway, the new campaigns extension is here to stay, and I'd like to propose adding a campaign identifier ("campaign=anoneditwarning") to the sign up link in this MediaWiki message. This message is presented to thousands of people who might be interested in editing semi-protected pages, but we have no idea how many end up creating accounts, or if they end up actually editing anything afterwards.
Aggregate stats on how many people sign up via the link in this message will help my team figure out how many new accounts are coming in via semi-protected pages. We're constantly trying to get data that helps us prioritize our experimentation, so knowing this will help us plan what kind of features to test next. For the community, knowing this will hopefully help inform decision-making as well, such as what should go in this message. Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 01:03, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
The background color, which helps this stand out in the source editor, isn't really necessary in VisualEditor as it has its own notification system - and it looks odd. We should move the inline styles to the stylesheet (good practice anyway), and disable the background color for VE. ESanders (WMF) ( talk) 10:11, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
A suggestion for a minor copy update, originally proposed as part of the Privacy Policy discussion by @ Risker:
From...
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. Please log in or create an account to have your edits associated with a user name, among other benefits
To...
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be associated with a user name, among other benefits.
Seems okay to me, though I prefer the slightly more positive "attributed to a user name" instead. Anyone object? Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 21:53, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
@ Wikipedia: The "other benefits" link should link to the "Benefits explained" section rather than the "Summary of benefits" section.
Never mind, @ Wikipedia. I just wanted to use the template. -- Alien Putsch resistant ( talk) 20:20, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
Just like the "other benefits" link on this page. -- Alien Putsch resistant ( talk) 21:42, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
The recent enlargement of the warning banner, combined with the addition of a large stop hand, has changed this from being merely informative to communicating a message that anonymous editing is strongly discouraged. I have made a post about this at WP:TECHPUMP to draw more attention to the issue, but I would like to ask that these changes be reverted until some form of consensus can be reached. 130.216.218.47 ( talk) 04:29, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
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-- 65.94.171.126 ( talk) 05:08, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
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Same but with red triangle. This is how British road signs look.-- ♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 06:20, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
I removed the large image for now. We're in the middle of controlled testing for alternative ways to invite anonymous editors to register (see the blog post with links to additional documentation). If we're going to implement any radical change, we should wait until at least next week, until the test is done. Otherwise we potentially invalidate the results. Plus, as anons have noted here, a huge image like this is not encouraging and helpful. Just increasing the loudness of a message does not improve its effectiveness. It just makes it more annoying. This image makes the warning pretty much the same size as the entire edit summary and save form, by comparison. Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 15:54, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
When communities find solutions to their problems independent of the WMF, it is not the WMF's place to overrule them unless there is actual harm to the interface or it requires significant expenditure of precious WMF resources. There are no resources being expended here, and there is no harm to the interface. Therefore, you should not be reverting on behalf of the WMF. It is precisely this "our needs are greater than yours" attitude, especially when there is a known problem that is not going to be resolved by what is being tested in the experiment, that creates such friction between WMF staff and communities. Please reconsider. Risker ( talk) 16:58, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
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This looks OK to me.-- ♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 18:15, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
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IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in or
create an account, your edits will be attributed to a user name, among
other benefits. |
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-- 65.94.171.126 ( talk) 05:08, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
Although we call IP editors anonymous, their IP address offers more details about them then an account created with an alias. Should we be explaining this to IPs? Dougweller ( talk) 14:04, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
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There's a vector version, please replace File:AnonEditWarning.png with File:AnonEditWarning.svg.
The appearance will be the same:
![]() | You are not logged in. Saving the change you are previewing will record your IP address in this page's public edit history. Please log in or sign up to have your edit associated with a user name, among other benefits. |
Rezonansowy ( talk | contribs) 08:55, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
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Change [[Wikipedia:Why_create_an_account%3F#Summary_of_benefits|other benefits]]
to [[Wikipedia:Why_create_an_account%3F#Benefits explained|other benefits]]
to correctly link to the section.
L235 (
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ping in reply)
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… since apparently MediaWiki is now adding a yellow box of its own (it surrounds this message with a <div class="warningbox"/>), which means that this message is enclosed in boxes twice, and with inconsistent background colors, as shown below:
![]() | You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to a user name, among other benefits. |
Thanks. — Born2bgratis 22:37, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
[[File:AnonEditWarning.svg|10x20px|left|link=]] '''You are not logged in'''. Your [[IP address]] will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you '''[{{fullurl:Special:UserLogin|returnto={{FULLPAGENAMEE}}}} log in]''' or '''[{{fullurl:Special:UserLogin/signup|campaign=anoneditwarning&returnto={{FULLPAGENAMEE}}}} create an account]''', your edits will be attributed to a user name, among [[Wikipedia:Why_create_an_account%3F#Benefits explained|other benefits]].
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to a user name, among other benefits.
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to a user name, among other benefits.
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to a user name, among other benefits.
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Soyelpoli143 ( talk) 19:24, 5 September 2016 (UTC) bangaldesh </head/>
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At Village Pump it was suggested that the logged-out warning should be red. [3] There was no discussion beyond the initial suggestion, but it seems sensible and uncontroversial. It may reduce the number of registered editors who request oversights after accidental IP edits.
The minimal edit is to change '''You are not logged in'''.
to <span style="color:red; font-weight:bold;">You are not logged in.</span>
.
Or simply copy paste this to replace everything:
[[File:AnonEditWarning.svg|10x20px|left|link=]] <span style="color:red; font-weight:bold;">You are not logged in.</span> Your [[IP address]] will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you <span class="plainlinks">'''[{{fullurl:Special:UserLogin|returnto={{FULLPAGENAMEE}}}} log in]''' or '''[{{fullurl:Special:UserLogin/signup|campaign=anoneditwarning&returnto={{FULLPAGENAMEE}}}} create an account]'''</span>, your edits will be attributed to a user name, among [[Wikipedia:Why_create_an_account%3F#Benefits explained|other benefits]].
Approximate result in use:
Alsee ( talk) 06:54, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
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Archive 1 |
This message appears at the top of every page of users not logged in when editing. I've added links to IP address, the history, and to the log-in screen. Thanks! Flcelloguy ( A note?) 23:01, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
— Omegatron 00:01, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
"You are not logged in. You are free to edit pages; be aware that your IP address will be recorded in this page's edit history, which is accessible by anyone and can be used to reveal your true identity. Registering an account allows you to post under a pseudonym instead." — Omegatron 01:15, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
In the past week I've had to move no less than 7 articles created by anon users to the article namespace. Should we include a namespace check that points them to articles for creation? Kimchi. sg 10:37, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
I was thinking that it chould display the anon IP address along with a link to the anon's talk page. Something like "Your IP address, which can be found [[Special:Mytalk|here]], which will be recorded in this page's edit history". As it currently stands, it is exceedingly hard to find your own IP address and as thus, many anons (especially shared IPs) are unaware of their vandalism notices (usually thinking that their vandalism is acceptable). ~ Flame vip e r 13:35, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
Actually, it isn't. On Uncyclopedia it is, likely because they use an older version of MediaWiki. ~ Flame vip e r Who's a Peach? 17:37, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
The link to your talk page is already functional. ~ Flame vip e r Who's a Peach? 17:36, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Per above discussion, I have taken the liberty of writing a new text for the contents of this page.
You are not currently logged in. While you are free to edit without logging in, your IP address (viewable here) will be recorded in this page's edit history. Creating an account will conceal your IP address and provide you with many other benefits.
The raw code:
You are not currently [[Special:Userlogin|logged in]]. While you are free to edit without logging in, your [[IP address]] (viewable [[Special:Mytalk|here]]) will be recorded in this page's <span class="plainlinks"> [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|action=history}} edit history]</span>. Creating an account will conceal your IP address and provide you with many other [[Wikipedia:Why create an account?|benefits]].
Cheers!
~ Flame vip e r Who's a Peach? 17:40, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
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(Topic moved from Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Reducing "unintentional vandalism" on advice.)
I would like to suggest that an augmented version of the text "For testing, please use the sandbox instead.", which currently appears in the edit window in a place where no-one would ever see it (least of all casual experimenters), is promoted up the page to go immediately beneath the edit buttons, so that this section reads:
The aim is to discourage non-malicious users from unintentionally corrupting pages by entering random characters etc. and then saving the page to "see what happens". I'm hoping that this area of the screen will -- just about -- bear one more line of text. Any thoughts?
Matt 22:20, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
(Undo indent) Excellent. I just had another thought actually. If you want to test out how something will appear in an article, then in practice it is so much easier to use the Preview button than mess around with the sandbox. If you can't get it to work, or you don't like the results, then you just navigate away without saving. I wonder if it might be worth trying to explicitly mention this in the message? Otherwise people might get into the habit of thinking they have to use the sandbox, when really they don't. Downside is that the message will get longer and more complicated, and I can't think of a really neat and concise way of expressing it right now. Matt 17:36, 27 April 2007 (UTC).
I think we should emphasize that your IP address and the time and date of your edits will be freely visible to anyone, and recorded forever and ever. I think this would discourage at least a small portion of the vandalism (from high school libraries and the like; yes, you can be tracked down from this information, kids). Currently it says:
You are not currently logged in. While you are free to edit without logging in, your IP address (viewable on your talkpage, where you can check messages sent to your IP) will be recorded in this page's edit history. Creating an account will conceal your IP address and provide you with many other benefits.
How about this?
You are not currently logged in. While you are free to edit without logging in, your IP address will be recorded publicly, along with the time and date, in this page's edit history. It is sometimes possible for others to identify you with this information. Creating an account will conceal your IP address and provide you with many other benefits. Messages sent to your IP can be viewed on your talkpage.
Whether it helps chill some vandalism or not, it's still good to spell this out for newcomers. Most people aren't too technically-savvy. — Omegatron 05:01, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
"can be used by others to identify you"? — Omegatron 18:46, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
I'd suggest something like "...will conceal your IP address - within reason - and..."-- Rambutan ( talk) 18:03, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
It's an improvement. People have the right to know this. A.Z. 00:00, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
This really looks like something that will backfire. We probably want vandals to edit anonymously so that it's easier for us to track them down. I don't quite see the positive in a move that will encourage the creation of vandalism-only accounts. Once a clueless vandal realizes that it takes 10 seconds to register a new account the time we lose with that vandal increases dramatically. Plus the warning message has an odd Orwellian tone to it that is likely to discourage positive contributions. I say let the clueless remain clueless. Good editors will eventually register an account. Vandals, hopefully, will continue to edit anonymously, unknowingly allowing us to be much more efficient in blocking them. Pascal.Tesson 20:28, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
{{ editprotected}} Would it be possible to make the link to Special:Mytalk more noticeable, to help make up for the failure of the new messages bar to work consistently or reliably for anons? That way they see an obvious link to their talk page whenever they hit ?--VectorPotential Talk 23:57, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
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Please reinstate the recent edit by Misza13 which was reverted. While anonymous users do not have a stylesheet page on Wikipedia, it is perfectly possible to create and use a stylesheet locally, for any website, Wikipedia included; without this attribute, there is no way to refer to this message using CSS -- 86.142.251.242 10:22, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
This didn’t show up when I wasn’t logged in: “Please do not save test edits. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox.” The following edit should be done, since the main sandbox sometimes has lost it’s links to the other sandboxes:
{{
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To experiment, use a sandbox:
Main Sandbox |
Tutorial Sandbox 1 |
Tutorial Sandbox 2 |
Tutorial Sandbox 3 |
Tutorial Sandbox 4 |
Tutorial Sandbox 5
For a sandbox of your own,
create a user subpage. Thank you.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Chuck Marean ( talk • contribs)
I've proposed a addition to the warning. Please see this discussion at WP:VPR for more information. D.M.N. ( talk) 11:53, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
In an attempt to clarify the benefits, and hopefully deter unconstructive edits with the note about shared ip's I came up with the following wording ( before I'd found the talk page ), anyway here it is in full for your delictation and picking over...might have some juicy bits in it? 19:58, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
You are not currently logged in, so Wikipedia will use your IP address to record your edits in this page's history and to post messages on this IP's talk page (these may also be read by anyone using the same computer or shared network). Creating an account, amongst other benefits, conceals your IP address and allows messages to sent directly to you, independent of the computer you login from.
Do not save test edits to articles, please experiment by copy and pasting to a sandbox first.
L∴V 21:15, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
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Please make this to an editnotice, change from {{ ombox}} to {{ editnotice}}. Xenus ( talk) 17:57, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
Give the box a background color so that I do not miss it as easily (because I just did once again). de.wikipedia for example uses a light blue, but I think the strong orange as in Template:SharedIPEDU fits best. — j.engelh ( talk) 11:35, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
/* Edit window background. */
textarea {
background: #FFFBF0; /* Light beige. */
}
{{
editprotected}}
Please replace:
You are not currently [[Special:UserLogin|logged in]].
with
You are not currently [{{fullurl:Special:UserLogin|returnto={{FULLPAGENAMEE}}&returntoquery=action%3Dedit}} logged in].
This will give a login link that returns to the edit page. Since this interface message is shown as an edit notice during editing we can assume the action=edit. Krinkle ( talk) 22:29, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
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Please make a wiki link to IP address, or otherwise state in the notice that an IP address can be used to determine a person's physical location. Not all anonymous editors know what an IP address is and what can be done with it. jfd34 ( talk) 05:58, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
Hey all! So, as you may be aware if you use the Vector skin, Vibha Bamba, myself and a couple of devs have been poking and prodding at the edit interface recently to try and simplify it. We've made a lot of changes to the actual software, but haven't touched things like this template - we wanted to give it a more considered look, and we certainly didn't want to change anything without getting feedback from the community :).
One of the things we've discovered through things like altering the edit interface is that a lot of people actually gloss over the anonymous editing warning (as evidenced by the need to regularly have oversighters remove contributions made by users who accidentally logged-out). It's something that people tend to dismiss, because it's ever-present and surrounded by a pile of other notices and UI elements. At the same time, the sheer size of the notice means that it can push "critical actions" (save, preview and cancel, for example) below the fold of the page - particularly since it's worth remembering that the warning can stack with others, such as the BLP warning or the protection notice, and fill up the entire screen.
With these things in mind we've made a redesign of the template, as transcluded here.
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The priorities/thinking behind it:
As always, we're grateful for any and all feedback - this doc provides quick guidelines on the type of feedback that we can constructively use. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 20:02, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
Okeyes (WMF), can you or an admin update the anon edit warning icon with this new one if it's ok with you? I cropped out the sides and compressed it so it's smaller/optimized. Thanks - M0rphzone ( talk) 22:53, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
This is not an edit request, but this question is related to this page. πr2 ( t • c) 01:08, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
The template provides a ?returnto
in the query string so that after creating an account the user will get a link to return to the page he or she was attempting to edit.
But it links to
Special:CreateAccount, which redirects and loses the query string.
The fix is to link to
Special:UserLogin/signup, which isn't a redirect and will preserve the returnto URL. You could instead use Special:Userlogin?type=signup, but I think the former is better.
While I'm here, let's be consistent and say "Create an account" which is the link on every page and the most popular phrasing, instead of "sign up/register/enroll/etc".
We should create a {{ Createacct-link}} template that fabricates links to _Create an account_ and makes it easier to track them all.-- S Page (WMF) ( talk) 07:01, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
Hey all,
Recently my team enabled Extension:Campaigns, which makes it easy to figure out how many people sign up via a link, by adding a bit to URLs like "?campaign=test". This functionality has been around in previous forms for several years, under names like CustomUserSignup.
Anyway, the new campaigns extension is here to stay, and I'd like to propose adding a campaign identifier ("campaign=anoneditwarning") to the sign up link in this MediaWiki message. This message is presented to thousands of people who might be interested in editing semi-protected pages, but we have no idea how many end up creating accounts, or if they end up actually editing anything afterwards.
Aggregate stats on how many people sign up via the link in this message will help my team figure out how many new accounts are coming in via semi-protected pages. We're constantly trying to get data that helps us prioritize our experimentation, so knowing this will help us plan what kind of features to test next. For the community, knowing this will hopefully help inform decision-making as well, such as what should go in this message. Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 01:03, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
The background color, which helps this stand out in the source editor, isn't really necessary in VisualEditor as it has its own notification system - and it looks odd. We should move the inline styles to the stylesheet (good practice anyway), and disable the background color for VE. ESanders (WMF) ( talk) 10:11, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
A suggestion for a minor copy update, originally proposed as part of the Privacy Policy discussion by @ Risker:
From...
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. Please log in or create an account to have your edits associated with a user name, among other benefits
To...
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be associated with a user name, among other benefits.
Seems okay to me, though I prefer the slightly more positive "attributed to a user name" instead. Anyone object? Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 21:53, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
@ Wikipedia: The "other benefits" link should link to the "Benefits explained" section rather than the "Summary of benefits" section.
Never mind, @ Wikipedia. I just wanted to use the template. -- Alien Putsch resistant ( talk) 20:20, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
Just like the "other benefits" link on this page. -- Alien Putsch resistant ( talk) 21:42, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
The recent enlargement of the warning banner, combined with the addition of a large stop hand, has changed this from being merely informative to communicating a message that anonymous editing is strongly discouraged. I have made a post about this at WP:TECHPUMP to draw more attention to the issue, but I would like to ask that these changes be reverted until some form of consensus can be reached. 130.216.218.47 ( talk) 04:29, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
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-- 65.94.171.126 ( talk) 05:08, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
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Same but with red triangle. This is how British road signs look.-- ♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 06:20, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
I removed the large image for now. We're in the middle of controlled testing for alternative ways to invite anonymous editors to register (see the blog post with links to additional documentation). If we're going to implement any radical change, we should wait until at least next week, until the test is done. Otherwise we potentially invalidate the results. Plus, as anons have noted here, a huge image like this is not encouraging and helpful. Just increasing the loudness of a message does not improve its effectiveness. It just makes it more annoying. This image makes the warning pretty much the same size as the entire edit summary and save form, by comparison. Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 15:54, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
When communities find solutions to their problems independent of the WMF, it is not the WMF's place to overrule them unless there is actual harm to the interface or it requires significant expenditure of precious WMF resources. There are no resources being expended here, and there is no harm to the interface. Therefore, you should not be reverting on behalf of the WMF. It is precisely this "our needs are greater than yours" attitude, especially when there is a known problem that is not going to be resolved by what is being tested in the experiment, that creates such friction between WMF staff and communities. Please reconsider. Risker ( talk) 16:58, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
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This looks OK to me.-- ♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 18:15, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
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log in or
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other benefits. |
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-- 65.94.171.126 ( talk) 05:08, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
Although we call IP editors anonymous, their IP address offers more details about them then an account created with an alias. Should we be explaining this to IPs? Dougweller ( talk) 14:04, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
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There's a vector version, please replace File:AnonEditWarning.png with File:AnonEditWarning.svg.
The appearance will be the same:
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Change [[Wikipedia:Why_create_an_account%3F#Summary_of_benefits|other benefits]]
to [[Wikipedia:Why_create_an_account%3F#Benefits explained|other benefits]]
to correctly link to the section.
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… since apparently MediaWiki is now adding a yellow box of its own (it surrounds this message with a <div class="warningbox"/>), which means that this message is enclosed in boxes twice, and with inconsistent background colors, as shown below:
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Thanks. — Born2bgratis 22:37, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
[[File:AnonEditWarning.svg|10x20px|left|link=]] '''You are not logged in'''. Your [[IP address]] will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you '''[{{fullurl:Special:UserLogin|returnto={{FULLPAGENAMEE}}}} log in]''' or '''[{{fullurl:Special:UserLogin/signup|campaign=anoneditwarning&returnto={{FULLPAGENAMEE}}}} create an account]''', your edits will be attributed to a user name, among [[Wikipedia:Why_create_an_account%3F#Benefits explained|other benefits]].
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to a user name, among other benefits.
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to a user name, among other benefits.
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to a user name, among other benefits.
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Soyelpoli143 ( talk) 19:24, 5 September 2016 (UTC) bangaldesh </head/>
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At Village Pump it was suggested that the logged-out warning should be red. [3] There was no discussion beyond the initial suggestion, but it seems sensible and uncontroversial. It may reduce the number of registered editors who request oversights after accidental IP edits.
The minimal edit is to change '''You are not logged in'''.
to <span style="color:red; font-weight:bold;">You are not logged in.</span>
.
Or simply copy paste this to replace everything:
[[File:AnonEditWarning.svg|10x20px|left|link=]] <span style="color:red; font-weight:bold;">You are not logged in.</span> Your [[IP address]] will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you <span class="plainlinks">'''[{{fullurl:Special:UserLogin|returnto={{FULLPAGENAMEE}}}} log in]''' or '''[{{fullurl:Special:UserLogin/signup|campaign=anoneditwarning&returnto={{FULLPAGENAMEE}}}} create an account]'''</span>, your edits will be attributed to a user name, among [[Wikipedia:Why_create_an_account%3F#Benefits explained|other benefits]].
Approximate result in use:
Alsee ( talk) 06:54, 7 January 2017 (UTC)