Yes, I got the same idea as Mateus when reading this thread: As you type in a user name (or tab to the next box), the form should tell you if that username is taken or not. That will save you a lot of trouble going back to try a new user name.
2011/12/4 Mateus Nobre mateus.nobre@live.co.uk
I think it's easier if you write your username in a box and appears early ''sorry, it's already used'' or ''available!''.
Like the e-mail system.
I never liked the suggestions system.
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Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 03:10:33 -0700 From: fredbaud@fairpoint.net To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia Account Creation
Hello, Last month I was in Qatar and introduced some people to Wikipedia.
While
they were creating their accounts, some of them had their initial suggested username taken, so they had to repeat it a couple of
times
until they finally found an available username. One of them had
repeated
it around 3 or 4 times until he had gotten frustrated. Which is why
I'm
asking if it's possible to add search type-ahead suggestions for available accounts. //Abbas.
We have a page to do that at Special:ListUsers
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Special:ListUsers
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ListUsers
Fred
Special:ListUsers =/= list of all users with SUL
przykuta
What does Special:ListUsers =/= list of all users with SUL mean?
I thought the problem was to find account names that are not being
used.
If you search for a name you think you might want to use it returns a list of existing accounts.
What is "SUL"?
I know I'm supposed to understand Wikipedia acronyms, but I almost
never
do, unless I use them regularly myself, but I try to never use them, so never get practiced up.
Fred
OK, here is a tool: http://toolserver.org/~quentinv57/sulinfo
This gives user info from every Wikimedia wiki. "SUL Info
This script gives a list of every account using a specified name on WMF wikis, and displays SUL data if accounts have been merged."
The catch though is that if there is not an exact match it just returns no account. Special:ListUsers shows most close matches.
It serves well enough for creation of an account on the wiki you're running it on. But there might be someone on another wiki using the same name, or one that is confusingly close.
Fred
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