[Mediawiki-l] How to remove required upper-case on first letter of username

Tue Sep 27 14:00:16 UTC 2005

From: Prodos (Melbourne, Australia)

Good evening.

Rick DeNatale wrote:
> As Brion pointed out though, there is a REASON why user names in
> mediawiki need to start with an uppercase letter. User names map to
> Article names (the user's page and talk page for example), and other
> parts of Mediawiki depend on this.
> 
> What this patch does is to eliminate a bit of input checking, not a
> good thing if you don't understand why the input is being checked.  At
> best you are likely to end up with users whose user pages are
> inaccessible, at worst who knows.
> 

I see. Okay, thanks for the cautionary note.

I'll do some testing and see what happens and report back.

Best Wishes,

PRODOS

http://prodos.thinkertothinker.com