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Piramidion (talkcontribs)

Hi! There is a problem with one BlackList entry. This one:

#Allows creation of pages with titles too similar to existing pages
.*(е|а|о).*

It doesn't allow (new) users with cyrillic SUL name to login to MediaWiki site. Cause they usually contain these cyrillic (е|а|о) characters. You need to either remove this entry or improve it somehow.

Florianschmidtwelzow (talkcontribs)
Piramidion (talkcontribs)

@Jasper Deng:@Florianschmidtwelzow: A week has passed. Anything? Our users still cannot enter MediaWiki site nor create their own user pages if their SUL usernames contain any of these 3 characters. The only exception is for those users with cyrillic SUL names who had registered here before this blacklist entry was enabled. Are you gonna do anything about that or should I address someone else to solve this problem?

Florianschmidtwelzow (talkcontribs)

@Piramidion: I have commented out this rule for now, so it should work, if this is the real problem. Can you test it and give a response, if it works now?

@Jasper Deng: We should check, if we need this rule and should re-enable it with some adjustment?

Piramidion (talkcontribs)

Thanks! I will tell the user(s) who couldn't enter MediaWiki under their own SUL login to try again. Earlier one user (now an administrator on ukwiki) had got the message that "this username is blacklisted on MediaWiki" or something like that. Now it should be fine. I will post the result here.

Piramidion (talkcontribs)
Florianschmidtwelzow (talkcontribs)

Great :) YesYDone

Now we just need to figure out, how we can use this rule, without this behavior :P

Jasper Deng (talkcontribs)

The rule's now obsolete in terms of serving its original purpose, so I have no objection removing it. But for future reference, does there exist a converse to newaccountonly?

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