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Wikipedia logout: Logout confirmation

  • Problem: If I accidentally click logout in the menu, it logs me out without confirmation.
  • Proposed solution: Implement user confirmation when logging out.
  • Who would benefit: Everyone. A person does not have to deal with the login process and what he/she has, or where they have saved password.
  • More comments:
  • Phabricator tickets: T357484
  • Proposer: Dušan Kreheľ (talk) 17:38, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

We already have a gadget for this. See zh:MediaWiki:Gadget-confirm-logout.js.--GZWDer (talk) 23:24, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
How can I install that? Please in language for a non-programmer, so step by step. JopkeB (talk) 09:12, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
There is really nothing Wikipedia-specific about this - it's a question of general UI design that applies to most every web site that supports long-term logins. The overwhelming consensus of the web design community--as evidenced by the behavior of web sites in general--seems to be that logouts should not require confirmation. An accidental logout has a simple and obvious affordance for undoing: logging in again. Generally speaking, user interfaces should assume that users are not helpless and that they intend the actions they perform. That's doubly true when an action is benign and easily reversible. NillaGoon (talk) 22:12, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@NillaGoon: My proposal can be justified on a home computer, where there is no need to log out of the web browser. Dušan Kreheľ (talk) 17:43, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Something different about from most other sites I use on a regular basis, is that logging out on one device logs me out on every device. That significantly increases the "cost" of an accidental button press. Barkeep49 (talk) 21:36, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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