[Mediawiki-l] username with an @

[Michael Rosenthal]

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.

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Brion Vibber <brion at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On 3/13/09 7:17 AM, Lane, Ryan wrote:
>>> Are usernames with an "@" in it not supported?
>>>
>>
>> @ is not allowed in usernames (unfortunately).
>
> This is because @ is used as a separator between username and database
> name when dealing with multi-wiki installations... In theory you could
> hack it out and hope nothing goes wrong if you're not doing cross-wiki
> user permission settings. :)
>
> -- brion
>
>>
>> V/r,
>>
>> Ryan Lane
>>
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