the lowercase names resolve correctly anyway, so as far as the user is
concerned there really is no difference. are only trailing spaces striped.
eg. can I have "a barf monster" or "a barf monster" it doesn't
seems like
there would be a valid reason to have "abarfmonster " as a username…
*Jared Zimmerman * \\ Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia Foundation
M : +1 415 609 4043 | : @JaredZimmerman<https://twitter.com/JaredZimmerman>
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 11:16 PM, Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Jared Zimmerman <
jared.zimmerman(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
What are all of the things that could need to be
changed about a user
name?
rather than getting to an error state could we just prohibit the user
from creating incomptible input in the first place with something like
this?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3199291/block-some-characters-from-being…
Automatically capitalize the first character when entering text in the
box, strip consecutive double spaces, and ignore when there is input of
invalid characters?
It's a bit weird, because you don't actually have to change your username.
The normal state right now is basically this...
- User enters 'abarfmonster' as username
- MediaWiki checks if that is available and not too close to another
username
- If it's available, account is successfully created, *but *silently in
the background, it's changed to 'Abarfmonster' because usernames are page
titles technically speaking and thus must start with a capital.
The same happens with trailing whitespace, etc. What's being proposed is
that we warn users and make them confirm their choice.
--
Steven Walling,
Product Manager
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
_______________________________________________
Design mailing list
Design(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design