On 1/7/06, Kyle Lutze kyle@randomvoids.com wrote:
is the plan to have this lock usernames too? I think it would be cool to make a page that says: user account unavailible due to such and such reason, like all of the accounts that try to impersonate jimbo that curps keeps blocking, etc. possibly blocking other names that have a 99% chance of being used as a sockpuppet account in the future too? such as by sollog.
That would be a good feature request for mediawiki itself.
Maybe a list of regexes of usernames. I could think of a number of cussword or political usernames which ought to be banned.
This would be important for particularly high-popularity wikis. I wouldn't need to use it, but it would be a sensible feature to see.
With a basic search, it looks like this feature has not been requested yet: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=re...
Request it.. report back, and I'll vote on it. =)