[Foundation-l] Wikipedia Account Creation

Sat Dec 3 22:52:41 UTC 2011

On 3 December 2011 22:27, Abbas Mahmood <abbasjnr at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.

How would that work? On what basis would it make suggestions? Would it
just tell you what the next available number to add onto the end is? I
can't think of any other suggestions it could make...