the lowercase names resolve correctly anyway, so as far as the user is concerned there really is no difference. are only trailing spaces striped. eg. can I have "a barf monster" or "a barf monster" it doesn't seems like there would be a valid reason to have "abarfmonster " as a username…
*Jared Zimmerman * \\ Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia Foundation M : +1 415 609 4043 | : @JaredZimmerman<https://twitter.com/JaredZimmerman> On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 11:16 PM, Steven Walling <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Jared Zimmerman < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> What are all of the things that could need to be changed about a user >> name? >> >> rather than getting to an error state could we just prohibit the user >> from creating incomptible input in the first place with something like >> this? >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3199291/block-some-characters-from-being-typed-in-a-text-box >> >> Automatically capitalize the first character when entering text in the >> box, strip consecutive double spaces, and ignore when there is input of >> invalid characters? >> > > It's a bit weird, because you don't actually have to change your username. > The normal state right now is basically this... > > - User enters 'abarfmonster' as username > - MediaWiki checks if that is available and not too close to another > username > - If it's available, account is successfully created, *but *silently in > the background, it's changed to 'Abarfmonster' because usernames are page > titles technically speaking and thus must start with a capital. > > The same happens with trailing whitespace, etc. What's being proposed is > that we warn users and make them confirm their choice. > > -- > Steven Walling, > Product Manager > https://wikimediafoundation.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Design mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design > >
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