https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28747
--- Comment #2 from SoWhy 2011-04-29 19:33:39 UTC ---
Blocking autocreation would probably not work without heavy modifications, also
that would still allow impersonation of prominent users on little known side
projects, for example by claiming to be an en-wiki admin on en-wikiversity.
On a side note, AntiSpoof probably needs to be improved as well, as seen in the
recent attack of impersonation accounts on en-wiki. For example, AntiSpoof does
not block the creation of usernames with a single character changed unless that
character is similar to the changed one ("SöWhy" is blocked but "SüWhy" is
not). On a short username like mine, a change of a character is easily noticed
but if the username has 15+ characters or if the username is complicated, many
people will not notice the change, so it would probably be good if AntiSpoof
checked how much the new username has in common with existing ones.
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