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The handling of usernames should be case-insensitive in core MediaWiki. This means, possibly among other caveats: * 'QWERTY' and 'qwerty' and 'Qwerty' should be considered the same username for the purposes of account creation and logging in * Titles in the User: namespace should be case-insensitive like in the Special: namespace (related to bug 453) * Usernames starting with a lowercase first letter should be permitted (bug 1574 / bug 26396), and preferably users should be able to change the casing on already existing accounts themselves -------------------------- **Version**: 1.23.0 **Severity**: enhancement **See Also**: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61416 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26396

The handling of usernames should be case-insensitive in core MediaWiki. This means, possibly among other caveats: * 'QWERTY' and 'qwerty' and 'Qwerty' should be considered the same username for the purposes of account creation and logging in * Titles in the User: namespace should be case-insensitive like in the Special: namespace (related to bug T2453) * Usernames starting with a lowercase first letter should be permitted (bug T3574 / bug T28396), and preferably users should be able to change the casing on already existing accounts themselves -------------------------- **Version**: 1.23.0 **Severity**: enhancement **See Also**: * T63416

The handling of usernames should be case-insensitive in core MediaWiki. This means, possibly among other caveats: * 'QWERTY' and 'qwerty' and 'Qwerty' should be considered the same username for the purposes of account creation and logging in * Titles in the User: namespace should be case-insensitive like in the Special: namespace (related to bug T2453) * Usernames starting with a lowercase first letter should be permitted (bug 1T3574 / bug 26396T28396), and preferably users should be able to change the casing on already existing accounts themselves -------------------------- **Version**: 1.23.0 **Severity**: enhancement **See Also**: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61416* T63416 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26396