Userrights uses @ for steward type userright changes (managing userrights cross-wiki).
For that reason @ has been made an illegal character in usernames for quite some time now. ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://nadir-seen-fire.com] -Nadir-Point (http://nadir-point.com) -Wiki-Tools (http://wiki-tools.com) -MonkeyScript (http://monkeyscript.nadir-point.com) -Animepedia (http://anime.wikia.com) -Narutopedia (http://naruto.wikia.com) -Soul Eater Wiki (http://souleater.wikia.com) George Herbert wrote: > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
