Re: Wiki editor privileges

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
wrote:

> Stephen Frost wrote:
> > Daniel,
> >
> > * Daniel Gustafsson (daniel(at)yesql(dot)se) wrote:
> > > I would like wiki editor privileges for the PostgreSQL wiki, my
> username is
> > > D_gustafsson.
> >
> > I'm afraid the wiki system really doesn't like underscores in
> > usernames, so this isn't the trivial change I was hoping it was.
> >
> > Magnus or Stefan, can one of you shed some light as to how we handle
> > this case...?
>
> We already tried this recently and we ended up asking the person to
> create another account.
>
> We should really just forbid underscores in community account names, I
> think.
>

It would be easy enough to do that for new accounts. But before doing that
we should probably figure out what other non-alphanumeric things that need
to be locked. Other examples taht we have that could be a problem maybe,
would be things like @,-,/,=%,,... And what about non-ascii names?

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