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Bug 21416 - Account creation form should check username validity interactively
Account creation form should check username validity interactively
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 34447
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
User login and signup (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Low enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:...
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Reported: 2009-11-05 14:11 UTC by Brion Vibber
Modified: 2013-06-18 16:28 UTC (History)
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Description Brion Vibber 2009-11-05 14:11:32 UTC 
Currently you don't know if your preferred username is valid or taken until you submit the creation form; at which point you probably have to fill out the captcha again. :P

We should be doing a check via AJAX and providing clearer feedback about whether a username will work or not ahead of time.
Comment 1 tomashnyk 2011-11-14 11:52:31 UTC 
Yes, I have just spent five minutes trying to sing up to wikipedia - and that was too tedious. Only good thing about that was that checking whether given username exists happens before checking captcha. I think this is related to https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28085 - both make it harder to make an account and contribute more.
Comment 2 Alexandre Emsenhuber [IAlex] 2012-02-25 15:31:57 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 34447 ***
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