[Foundation-l] Wikipedia Account Creation

Sun Dec 4 09:50:04 UTC 2011

>> >
>> > 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.
>> > //Abbas.
>>
>> We have a page to do that at Special:ListUsers
>>
>> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Special:ListUsers
>>
>> or
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ListUsers
>>
>> Fred
>>
>
> Special:ListUsers =/= list of all users with SUL
>
> przykuta
>

What does Special:ListUsers =/= list of all users with SUL mean?

I thought the problem was to find account names that are not being used.
If you search for a name you think you might want to use it returns a
list of existing accounts.

What is "SUL"?

I know I'm supposed to understand Wikipedia acronyms, but I almost never
do, unless I use them regularly myself, but I try to never use them, so
never get practiced up.

Fred