On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 7:56 PM, K. Peachey p858snake@yahoo.com.au wrote:
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Michael Rosenthal rosenthal3000@googlemail.com wrote:
Isn't there a workaround to change the userrights without hacking MediaWiki? I think I read about a method in which the @ is replaced by something on bugzilla but unfortunatly I can't find it again.
Using a "#<USERIDNUMBER>" in the username field iirc.
Does this work for blocking too? Apparently the colon ":" also causes problems, see logs: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=User:WP:ANI http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=User:WPANI
That's how this unblockable user was able to do page-move vandalism continuously for over 30 minutes. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&user=WPANI&lim...
I'd argue that usernames containing deprecated characters should be automatically renamed or locked out pending a rename.
—C.W.