On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 7:56 PM, K. Peachey <p858snake(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote:
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Michael Rosenthal
<rosenthal3000(a)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:
That's how this unblockable user was able to do page-move vandalism
continuously for over 30 minutes.
I'd argue that usernames containing deprecated characters should be
automatically renamed or locked out pending a rename.
—C.W.