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Bug 41849 - Pre validation of username for ACC experiment is inaccurate
Pre validation of username for ACC experiment is inaccurate
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 40648
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
E3 Experiments (Other open bugs)
master
All All
: Normal normal (vote)
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Assigned To: spage
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Depends on:
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Reported: 2012-11-07 15:45 UTC by Derk-Jan Hartman
Modified: 2014-02-20 02:11 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---

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2012-11-07 15:45 UTC, Derk-Jan Hartman 		Details
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2012-11-07 15:45 UTC, Derk-Jan Hartman 		Details
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Description Derk-Jan Hartman 2012-11-07 15:45:01 UTC 
Created attachment 11324 [details]
All valid fields

See the screenshots of me trying to register one of my accounts.
Comment 1 Derk-Jan Hartman 2012-11-07 15:45:32 UTC 
Created attachment 11325 [details]
but not allowed
Comment 2 spage 2012-11-07 19:31:06 UTC 
You're right, unfortunately. Client-side validation in account creation is hampered by bug 40648 "can't validate username against blocking extensions like AntiSpoof." Technical discussion should continue there.

Do you think client-side validation is useful as it is, given that it can be misleading and you only discover some problems with form input by submitting it?  

Maybe the green checkmark shouldn't turn on for the username field.  It means "no apparent errors with this field", not "this is going to work".  It's possible for extensions to complain about the other fields on form submissions, but I haven't seen this happen on enwiki for password and e-mail.
Comment 3 Steven Walling 2012-11-07 20:34:39 UTC 
Yes, AntiSpoof and other extensions don't yet play nice with the client-side validation. 

This version is solely for testing purposes, to try and understand whether updating validation will have any measurable benefits for end users. 

When/if we move to productize this, we'll definitely need to resolve bug 40648 and similar dependencies from extensions that add more checks than are in core.
Comment 4 Ori Livneh 2013-01-13 03:28:32 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 40648 ***
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