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02-Jul-2009, 12:22 PM #16
It is somehow clear now. Probably special characters: hyphens & under-scores cannot be used. The one who is responsible for the library script should check if those characters are not allowed in the script and enable them maybe.
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02-Jul-2009, 04:06 PM #17
I think that's a limitation of MediaWiki (the software that runs such sites as Wikipedia), but I'm not sure if there's a way around it... we'll have to do some work on that.
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02-Jul-2009, 05:26 PM #18
I've had some eCommerce sites reject my email address because it contains a dash, probably the same lame coders at work. If it's legal character in the context, they should be able to figure it out.
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02-Jul-2009, 05:35 PM #19
That would be consistent with my test too as the name had a symbol in it.
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02-Jul-2009, 05:56 PM #20
Perhaps there is a way to "escape" the symbol characters.
Try TBH\-LSVC or TBH/-LSVC or TBH^-LSVC for example.
No telling if there even is an escape symbol, or what it is though.
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02-Jul-2009, 09:25 PM #21
Well at least it's figured out why some accounts don't work.

I wonder if it's fixed in a newer version of MediaWiki? the current one being used is a bit old...
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05-Jul-2009, 09:01 PM #22
Users with dashes in their username should now be able to login. I am working on the underscore users.
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05-Jul-2009, 09:47 PM #23
Users with underscores in their username should now be able to login, however, due to a Wiki constraint the username will appear with a space rather than an underscore.

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06-Jul-2009, 05:29 AM #24
Thanks very much. I've signed in successfully.
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06-Jul-2009, 08:22 AM #25
That was quick.
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06-Jul-2009, 03:33 PM #26
Wow, great job, Dan!
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06-Jul-2009, 08:22 PM #27
Now that calls for a raise!


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Hear! Hear!
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09-Jul-2009, 05:54 PM #29
linuxphile
from my post:
02-Jul-2009, 10:14 AM #15

and your post:
05-Jul-2009, 08:47 PM #23

it did alter the name - but it works, thank you dan

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11-Jul-2009, 08:31 AM #30
Thanks again for everything.
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