On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 02:55:37 +0100, Matthew Flaschen mflaschen@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 01/04/2014 09:52 PM, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
This is really a UX question, not design per se.
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/104926/ (an under-review change) adds a warning if you choose a username that needs to be reformatted/canonicalized. For example, "my username" is changed to "My username".
Umherirrender abandoned the change for now. However, they created a bug to track it, https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61416
I extended the change with additional client-side checks and resubmitted: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/114400 . It behaves basically the same, but we check everything with an AJAX request if the user has JavaScript enabled, no form resubmitting needed. It was also easy to add checks for invalid or taken usernames, so I did that as well. Reviews welcome :)