On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Jared Zimmerman < jared.zimmerman@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.