[Foundation-l] Wikipedia Account Creation

Sun Dec 4 11:47:05 UTC 2011

I think it's easier if you write your username in a box and appears early ''sorry, it's already used'' or ''available!''.

Like the e-mail system.

I never liked the suggestions system. 

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> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 03:10:33 -0700
> From: fredbaud at fairpoint.net
> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia Account Creation
> 
> >>> >
> >>> > 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
> 
> OK, here is a tool: http://toolserver.org/~quentinv57/sulinfo
> 
> This gives user info from every Wikimedia wiki. "SUL Info
> 
> This script gives a list of every account using a specified name on WMF
> wikis, and displays SUL data if accounts have been merged."
> 
> The catch though is that if there is not an exact match it just returns
> no account. Special:ListUsers shows most close matches.
> 
> It serves well enough for creation of an account on the wiki you're
> running it on. But there might be someone on another wiki using the same
> name, or one that is confusingly close.
> 
> Fred
> 
> 
> 
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