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==== Motivation It would be really confusing to have regular, permanent, registered accounts whose usernames mimic the style of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Temporary_accounts We should prevent people from accidentally creating a matching username. This means preventing the creation of anything that begins with a `~YYYY-n` format. Before testwiki deployment we will only migrate usernames beginning with "**~2**" (there are only two such accounts based on the analysis in T346465. After testwiki deployment we will consider migrating all other usernames so that the identifier can be simple "**~**". See also {T332805}. ==== What needs doing [] Get a list of all accounts starting with ~ {T346465} [] Define the config for `matchPattern`, `reservedPattern` and `genPattern` [] Rename any users necessary

==== Motivation It would be really confusing to have regular, permanent, registered accounts whose usernames mimic the style of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Temporary_accounts We should prevent people from accidentally creating a matching username. This means preventing the creation of anything that begins with a `~YYYY-n` format. Before testwiki deployment we will only migrate usernames beginning with "**~2**" (there are only two such accounts based on the analysis in T346465. After testwiki deployment we will consider migrating all other usernames so that the identifier can be simple "**~**". See also {T332805}. ==== What needs doing [] Get a list of all accounts starting with ~ {T346465} [] Define the config for `matchPattern`, `reservedPattern` and `genPattern` {T349506} [] Rename any users necessary {T349507}

==== Motivation It would be really confusing to have regular, permanent, registered accounts whose usernames mimic the style of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Temporary_accounts We should prevent people from accidentally creating a matching username. This means preventing the creation of anything that begins with a `~YYYY-n` format. Before testwiki deployment we will only migrate usernames beginning with "**~2**" (there are only two such accounts based on the analysis in T346465. After testwiki deployment we will consider migrating all other usernames so that the identifier can be simple "**~**". See also {T332805}. ==== What needs doing [] Get a list of all accounts starting with ~ {T346465} [] Define the config for `matchPattern`, `reservedPattern` and `genPattern` {T349506} [] Rename any users necessary {T349507}