mikael79 wrote:

(In reply to comment #0)
The login screen now tells the user that usernames has to be capitalized.

\[[wikt:sv:user:Mike]]

You cannot create accounts with a lowercase letter; this is by design. When we switch in common user
accounts for all wikis, a lowercase-initial account would be inaccessible.

gangleri wrote:

this bug (bug 1574: Account cannot be created with initial lower case letter)
and
bug 1818: Creating a new username that is not capitalized doesn't work
seems duplicates

• Bug 1818 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

gangleri wrote:

*** Bug 3362 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

gangleri wrote:

*note*
The first letter of an account name is capitalized regardles of the setting of
$wgCapitalLinks. However for account 'Foo' both pages 'user:Foo' *and*
'user:foo' (and all talk pages and subpages) can exist side by side. See:
Bug 5134: Disalow lowercase pagenames in the user and user talk namespace if
$wgCapitalLinks=false; (capitalization is off)

robchur wrote:

*** Bug 8865 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

herd wrote:

*** Bug 18505 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Heh, there's a non-wontfixed request for the same functionality from later.

• This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 26396 ***

Let's not have this as a DUPE, but the other way around.

• Bug 26396 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Bug 26396 which has been merged into this has some good comments; see in particular bug 26396 comment 17.

mails2vichu wrote:

Im interested in this bug..Please assign it to me

Restore WONTFIX per bug 26396 comment 24: this will not be done on Wikimedia projects, even if bug 26396 happened to be fixed.
Even if we allowed this (IMHO confusing) behaviour, we would have to disable creation of most such accounts when they're similar to existing ones (probably AntiSpoof already takes care of this)... even more confusing.