[Mediawiki-l] centos RPM

Daniel Friesen dan_the_man at telus.net
Tue Feb 10 01:53:50 UTC 2009


Userrights uses @ for steward type userright changes (managing 
userrights cross-wiki).

For that reason @ has been made an illegal character in usernames for 
quite some time now.

~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://nadir-seen-fire.com]
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George Herbert wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Robert Hagens <rhagens at envysion.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Are there special semantics associated with a user name such that if there
>> is an at sign, mediawiki assumes different properties about the user? For
>> example, if I have a user 'a at b.c' and I try to edit that user's rights, I
>> get an error "Database b.c does not exist or is not local."
>>     
>
>
> The main mediawiki server and DB do the right thing with @ symbols, but the
> user rights tools can't.   There's a user on english wikipedia with one of
> those, it's a known issue.
>
> New MW distributions apparently default to not letting you set up accounts
> with @ symbols in them, though I haven't tested that.
>
>
>   




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