https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70058

Bartosz Dziewoński <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Bartosz Dziewoński <[email protected]> ---
Known issue, the functionality was added in 74b222230 with the comment:

> The way this is done (via action=query&list=users API) means that we
> can't check for all possible error conditions, both for the username
> (e.g. these enforced by extensions like AntiSpoof) and other parts of
> the form (e-mail, password…) – these are still handled server-side
> only. Thus we intentionally never say that whatever the user typed in
> is valid – we only warn when we know it's not.
> 
> Doing this "properly" would require some reworking of the internals of
> the signup process and this way is already a huge improvement.

Basically, this would probably be best solved with a "dry run" mode for the
registration form.

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