In order to minimize the number of users impacted by introducing the temporary account format constraint (e.g. ~Unregistered459~) as well as choose a symbol that is recognizable by users, this task is to investigate the occurrences of different types of symbols that pre and postfix usernames.
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| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | lbowmaker | T262321 IP Masking | |||
| Resolved | Spike | Niharika | T300267 [IP Masking][Spike] Investigate special character occurrences for temporary account usernames |
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Others that @tstarling had put in the doc:
| Prefix | User count |
|---|---|
| ~ | 1078 |
| ` | 370 |
| ! | 2741 |
| @ | 412 (used on talk pages) |
| $ | 3638 |
| % | 148 |
| ^ | 1378 |
| & | 317 |
| * | 5435 |
| ( | 54337 |
| ) | 179 |
| - | 10075 |
| + | 899 |
| = | 738 |
| \ | 200 |
| ; | 544 |
| ' | 1299 |
| " | 4299 |
| , | 732 |
| . | 7553 |
| ? | 418 |
Note: total number of accounts is about 69M