https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26396
--- Comment #18 from elliotbro...@gmail.com --- Is allowing users to have the username they desire displayed as they are accustomed not at least a little compelling, even if not much of a priority on its own? Even if not classed as higher priority, do you think that at least for sites trying to integrate existing users via an auth plugin not being able to display usernames correctly and opening up the risk of username conflicts (if the existing user database has two users, one with lowercase first and one with uppercase first, but otherwise same name) is be enough justification to class this as a bug? I'm not familiar with the policies around here as to what counts as a bug and feature request, but making it easier to properly support integrating mediawiki into other sites with SSO seems like something which should be a goal, and things which get in the way of that like this feel to me like bugs. And speaking to our programmer, for now we're likely to just take the easy option and feed MW names forced to upper case, which will work but mean users with lcfirst on the rest of the sites have their usernames displayed inconsistently. Not a huge issue, but a bit of a hassle to have to set this up for a site encountering it, and a slightly uncomfortable thing to have in the long term for users who prefer lcfirst. Fixing it properly is a lower priority than quite a few other things for us right now, and if the patch ends up not being accepted it means reapplying the changes every time we update and the possibility of changes to the core making it incompatible. If we do get to this I'll post what we change here, but it'd be good to have some attention from people more familiar with MWs code to look into this and direct us towards any places other than those mentioned in the recently closed duplicate bug (he pastebinned his code changes, it expired and was not copied over, but the google cache was still live which I've re pastebinned here http://pastebin.com/JVxvhnhf ) which need changing for a way to turn this behaviour off to be added without problems. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
