Username decapitalized on the wiki

Seirin-Blu

27 Mar 2022, 04:47

I was gonna make myself a user: page in the forum but I was kinda confused when I went to wiki/User:Seirin-Blu and it didn't exist. I then think "I must be stupid and have forgot to capitalize my username when signing up", but I go back to the forum and behold the B is capitalized.

Does anyone know why this is?

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ifohancroft

06 Apr 2022, 16:21

On Wikimedia (the wiki software, and perhaps on other wiki software as well) the name of User pages (it may apply to other pages as well, but I can't confirm that) only the first letter can be capital.

I have no idea if that's a setting that can be changed in the administration or if it requires changing the actual code to allow capitalization of the other letters.

tactica2

28 Jul 2022, 18:22

This link possibly answers your question.

In short: yes, it's a config setting but it also requires a magic cookie in your user page.
ifohancroft wrote:
06 Apr 2022, 16:21
On Wikimedia (the wiki software.
That's Mediawiki - Wikimedia is the foundation behind Wikipedia and other stuff.

/pedantic

Findecanor

28 Jul 2022, 18:34

There is at least one page on the Wiki that uses {{DISPLAYTITLE}}, so apparently it is enabled and ready for use. :)

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