* Joe Conway (mail@joeconway.com) wrote:
> On 12/27/2016 07:49 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Dave Page wrote:
> >> Sorry for the delay on this - many of us are (still) on vacation. What
> >> is your username (not email)? Please make sure you've logged into the
> >> wiki at least once as well, so we have an auto-created account to
> >> promote.
> >
> > That's the actual account username ... and it turns out that MediaWiki
> > does not like it at all. I get a "403" when I visit the auth page. I
> > think Michael will have to create another account with a less unorthodox
> > username.
>
> Yeah, I tried various things to escape his username but could not find
> anything that would work. I could swear that this happened before I I
> found some workaround but I cannot remember what it was :-(
I believe that if a space is in the username then you can address that
with %20 or something, but I couldn't figure out how to make it work for
an email address either.
There was a bit of a discussion regarding this on #pginfra too, as I
recall, and the unfortunate answer is that if you want to use the wiki,
you need to use a regular username and not an email address. We had
complaints from people who weren't able to use their email address as
their username before and don't want to disable that either, and it does
work for the rest of the systems.
Thanks!
Stephen
