https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64960
--- Comment #2 from Dan Garry <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Liangent from comment #1) > (In reply to Dan Garry from comment #0) > > This means the user ends up creating a username that is different > > from what they typed in, which is suboptimal from a product perspective. > > Truncation is just a part of username normalization. Some other parts > including making the first character uppercase and replace underscores with > spaces. There're still other cases where "the user ends up creating a > username that is different from what they typed in". These other cases you mentioned are a bit different though: trying to log in with the username you typed in (e.g. "dGarry (WMF)" rather than "DGarry_(WMF)") will still work, as will typing any of these variants as a URL to find the person's userpage. Neither of these are true of the username containing the hashes. The case with the hash is the low-hanging fruit; it's one bit where the user experience is particularly confusing, and there is a clear solution for fixing it. -- 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 [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
