[Foundation-l] Wikipedia Account Creation
Fred Bauder
fredbaud at fairpoint.net
Sun Dec 4 02:38:23 UTC 2011
>
> 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
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