[Foundation-l] Automatic username transliteration for SUL
Neil Harris
usenet at tonal.clara.co.uk
Thu Dec 21 17:12:32 UTC 2006
Nicholas Moreau wrote:
> What about setting things up so that to create a SUL username with say,
> Tegulu characters, you *must* register at TE, no other language's
> registration form will accept it. That will significantly cut down on vanity
> and vandal usage of the such characters.
>
> Nick
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> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:50:33 -0500
> From: Stephanie Erin Daugherty <stephanie at sosdg.org>
>
> This is especially true when abusive users have deliberately taken advantage
> of this fact in order to make the lives of administrators and of other
> Wikipedians as difficult as possible, and it's also true for those handful
> of users that will mix character sets to "look cool" at the inconvenience of
> others.
>
>
Stephanie,
Character set mixing within usernames is no longer allowed, at least on
en: -- that is to say, each username must contain characters from only a
single writing system, in order to prevent cross-script homograph
attacks, and cannot contain any characters that are not associated with
a human natural writing system (such as math characters, symbols, line
art characters, and so on...)
When SUL is rolled out, this restriction will need to be applied to all
wikis.
I like Nick's idea of only being able to register name at a wiki that
has the script of that name in common use: this would mean that
registering abusive nicknames in wikis that do not understand a
particular script will easily be caught, and aid the socialization of
new users into the appropriate communities.
-- Neil
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