On 1/7/06, Kyle Lutze <kyle(a)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=r…
Request it.. report back, and I'll vote on it. =)