I think it's easier if you write your username in a box and appears early ''sorry, it's already used'' or ''available!''.
Like the e-mail system. I never liked the suggestions system. _____________________ MateusNobre MetalBrasil on Wikimedia projects (+55) 85 88393509 30440865 > Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 03:10:33 -0700 > From: fredb...@fairpoint.net > To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia Account Creation > > >>> > > >>> > Hello, > >>> > Last month I was in Qatar and introduced some people to Wikipedia. > >>> While > >>> > they were creating their accounts, some of them had their initial > >>> > suggested username taken, so they had to repeat it a couple of times > >>> > until they finally found an available username. One of them had > >>> repeated > >>> > it around 3 or 4 times until he had gotten frustrated. Which is why > >>> I'm > >>> > asking if it's possible to add search type-ahead suggestions for > >>> > available accounts. > >>> > //Abbas. > >>> > >>> We have a page to do that at Special:ListUsers > >>> > >>> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Special:ListUsers > >>> > >>> or > >>> > >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ListUsers > >>> > >>> Fred > >>> > >> > >> Special:ListUsers =/= list of all users with SUL > >> > >> przykuta > >> > > > > What does Special:ListUsers =/= list of all users with SUL mean? > > > > I thought the problem was to find account names that are not being used. > > If you search for a name you think you might want to use it returns a > > list of existing accounts. > > > > What is "SUL"? > > > > I know I'm supposed to understand Wikipedia acronyms, but I almost never > > do, unless I use them regularly myself, but I try to never use them, so > > never get practiced up. > > > > Fred > > OK, here is a tool: http://toolserver.org/~quentinv57/sulinfo > > This gives user info from every Wikimedia wiki. "SUL Info > > This script gives a list of every account using a specified name on WMF > wikis, and displays SUL data if accounts have been merged." > > The catch though is that if there is not an exact match it just returns > no account. Special:ListUsers shows most close matches. > > It serves well enough for creation of an account on the wiki you're > running it on. But there might be someone on another wiki using the same > name, or one that is confusingly close. > > Fred > > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l