[Foundation-l] Single login, et al

Tue Jul 12 01:14:45 UTC 2005

Sérgio Ribeiro wrote:
> ** OFFTOPIC **
> Since this is a little off-topic I don't want to post it one the discussion.
> With this new single login system, will be there new changes on the
> characters allowed on a username ? Like accepting underscores (_) on the
> username ?
>
> That may be the chance for me to change my nick from Get It to Get_It

Usernames must be valid page titles (so that for instance user and user
talk pages can exist). Since underscores are always normalized to spaces
in titles, the same goes for usernames.

That won't change.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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