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My Administrator login: l_d_allan
Becomes : l d allan

Can this be "fixed" or is that how MW works?

If not, should I have used l-d-allan? Or l.d.allan?

My speculation is that it may be too late to change, and the possible repercussions might ripple throughout my small wiki. Or not?

My setup:

ver. | 1.21.1 (super rusty at Linux and too much of a MW newbie to figure out how to upgrade to latest/greatest ... sorry)
PHP: 5.3.24 (cgi-fcgi) MySQL: 5.0.96-log
link to immature, under-construction wiki: canprint.org/wiki

I have noticed that MW treats pages like My_test_page as pretty much equivalent to My test page. They seem almost like an alias. Mea culpa, it didn't occur to me until possibly too late that my_login would have the underscore replaced.

what kind of Linux? Do you run a server (shared or just some small hosting webspace? The mysql version is a bit outdated and also the php could use an upgrade. Did you ever try apt-get update or apt-get dist-upgrade?

That with the underscore is just a display thing. Hover over your username in the thread and you see it with the underscores displayed.

The website is hosted by GoDaddy. They provide Linux, PHP, and MySQL. The version is not under my control.

I can live with the underscore becoming a space. It's actually not an issue that causes any problems.

That's how MediaWiki works. If you want to rename your user, you can use Extension:Renameuser (already bundled in your installation, you may need to enable it in LocalSettings.php).

OK. Thanks. That was operator error on my part. Resolved.