On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Robert Hagens <[email protected]> wrote:

> Are there special semantics associated with a user name such that if there
> is an at sign, mediawiki assumes different properties about the user? For
> example, if I have a user '[email protected]' and I try to edit that user's rights, I
> get an error "Database b.c does not exist or is not local."


The main mediawiki server and DB do the right thing with @ symbols, but the
user rights tools can't.   There's a user on english wikipedia with one of
those, it's a known issue.

New MW distributions apparently default to not letting you set up accounts
with @ symbols in them, though I haven't tested that.


-- 
-george william herbert
[email protected]
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