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Bug 48640 - Permit all lowercase usernames
Permit all lowercase usernames
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 26396
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
User login and signup (Other open bugs)
1.22.0
All All
: Low enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2013-05-20 15:42 UTC by Bartosz Dziewoński
Modified: 2013-06-26 16:32 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Description Bartosz Dziewoński 2013-05-20 15:42:57 UTC
MediaWiki should permit all lowercase usernames. There is [[mw:$wgCapitalLinkOverrides]], but it currently doesn't apply to User:, Special: and MediaWiki: namespaces.

Per IRC (#mediawiki):

<route> i've just modded 1.20.5 to permit all lowercase usernames, to do this i've removed NS_USER from the $alwaysCapitalizedNamespaces array in Namespace.php and i've removed calls to $wgContLang->ucfirst( $name ) in User.php. i've created a user and it seems to have worked as i'd expect -- is there anything i might be overlooking that could cause problems in future?

This was first allowed when the feature was implemented (r57558), then disallowed back (r57559, r58401, r60063) with unclear comments about MediaWiki crashing. This was back in 2009, though, and a lot might have changed.

The user provided the patch he used: http://pastebin.com/1C1iTbpU
Comment 1 Bartosz Dziewoński 2013-06-24 20:39:22 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 26396 ***
Comment 2 elliotbrown2 2013-06-26 16:32:10 UTC
Paste expired, but retrieved from google cache for anyone who comes across this and wants to use it (also linked from the merged bug, but it's fairly buried there): http://pastebin.com/JVxvhnhf

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