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MediaWiki usernames currently have their first letter capitalized, regardless
how they are entered. This is confusing and undesirable. Many people use
lower-case exclusively for such things, and are used to logging on and seeing
their user name displayed as they have entered it. Making usernames completely
case-insensitive - similar to email addresses - also reduces the chance of
spoofing another user.

Proper display of full name - if desired - can be accomplished through the
Nickname mechanism.

I have an entire building full of people with Unix accounts which use lower-case
naming almost exclusively. We wanted to set up an internal Wiki using our
current logins as accounts, but are unable to do so as MediaWiki subverts
whatever we type and capitalizes the first letter.

Please change this, or at least provide a LocalSettings variable that can be
used to switch this off.