On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:24 AM, Nicolas Brouard brouard@ined.fr wrote:
Thank you for your support. I just submitted a complete patch entitled "Can't authenticate using my mother language username (UNICODE) when I only have (a public) access to Wikipedia with an ASCII (english) keyboard" in about 20 languages on https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34590
People supporting this idea, please for it.
Cool!
See also: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28085, a bug I submitted ages ago based on feedback I've gotten talking to users who only occasionally edited. The idea is that that remembering a username can be a barrier to casual editing (a few tries to remember a username that you don't use much and you might just give up) -- and being able to log in with an email address might help make things smoother.
-- phoebe