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Jim Hu wrote:
I also find that when recruiting people who've been using computers a lot they reflexively type all lowercase into the Create and account box. So...what's the reasoning behind the uppercase first letter rule?
So you won't scream and yell when your username doesn't work on the other wikis without the full-case-sensitive option, but instead transparently works everywhere (due to the automatic uppercasing).
- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org)