On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 7:56 PM, K. Peachey <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Michael Rosenthal > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Isn't there a workaround to change the userrights without hacking >> MediaWiki? I think I read about a method in which the @ is replaced by >> something on bugzilla but unfortunatly I can't find it again. > Using a "#<USERIDNUMBER>" in the username field iirc.
Does this work for blocking too? Apparently the colon ":" also causes problems, see logs: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=User:WP:ANI http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=User:WPANI That's how this unblockable user was able to do page-move vandalism continuously for over 30 minutes. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&user=WPANI&limit=500 I'd argue that usernames containing deprecated characters should be automatically renamed or locked out pending a rename. —C.W. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
