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They are taking measures to ensure its not too easy to impersonate other users. Seems like a good idea to me.
Agreed. I know it must be inconvenient to come across this thing. But people have to realize, it is done for a reason.
You wouldn’t want anyone to pretend they’re you online and ruining your credibility and reputation.
That certainly does seem to be their goal, but, imo, it’s a bit extreme — especially given the context.
In Wikimedia projects (and MediaWiki systems in general) you actually have to pay attention to other people’s usernames (when working with histories and in article discussions), and at least in Wikipedia long long time ago there was a lot of trolling/vandalism where people impersonated other users (particularly the admins) and made bunch of sockpuppets with tiny variations in names when they got banned. So this rule makes sense.
That’s actually really cool that they do that. Reduces the ability of people to scam because they cannot pick intentionally-similar usernames.
Defense against homoglyph attacks is a good thing. I’m sure they haven’t had a big issue, but they have a homoglyph detector and that’s a great idea. More systems should implement a generalized homoglyph detector.
Kudos to wikibooks
Kalcifer KaIclfer Kaloifer Кalcifer
Etc…
try “Karushifā”
the scenes when one won’t be able to choose 5318008.
Ha, that username is apparently not allowed. They require that a username contain at least one letter.
That error message is pretty bad, characters does not mean letters.
