E23 wrote:
Shouldn't be a problem, MediaWiki is smart enough
to tell the names
apart if you click "block" after the name in RC. Also, if in doubt,
why not make a short block just to see how it works?
/E23
On 4/19/05, Anthere
anthere9-at-yahoo.com wrote:
>A request came to me from lb wikipedia.
>
>The "good" user is this one :
>http://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3ACornischong
>
>The "bad" user is this one :
>http://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3ACorni%C2%ADschong
>
>In recent changes, they both appear as Cornischong. But the vandal is in
>reality Corni-schong
>
>Cornischong is an admin on this wiki, he does not dare blocking the
>other Cornischong by fear he will be blocked as well...
>
>What do you suggest ?
>
>Anthere
>
>
>
Perhaps appropriately, %C2%AD codes for U+02AD, "latin letter bidental
percussive", i.e. quite literally a special letter for the
representation of the gnashing of teeth. Unfortunately, no glyph
appears to be attached to this letter in most fonts. Firefox (at least
on my setup) happily displays a glyph placeholder for this character,
but, judging by my reading of the page source of the fake "Cornischong"s
page, the MediaWiki software filters it out entirely before it reaches
the browser.
This is another interesting special case of the character spoofing
issue. where it appears that server-side attempts at filtering "bad"
characters are actually making the spoofing problem worse, not better.
Perhaps, for user account names, if the normalized string is not the
same as the raw string, the user name should be blocked from creation or
use, rather than being displayed in a spoofable form.
-- Neil