[Foundation-l] Wikipedia Account Creation

Sat Dec 3 23:04:23 UTC 2011

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

Mhm, random (but not used with username) short number.

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