Titleblacklist blocks user page from being edited, despite RegExp actually does not match
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	Oct 29 2008, 9:34 PM

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Author: Wiki.Melancholie

Description:
[[bar:MediaWiki:Titleblacklist]] blocks a user page from editing, despite the RegExp actually does not match:

http://bar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benutzer:WikimediaNotifier&action=edit&uselang=en
Message:
You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason:
The title "Benutzer:WikimediaNotifier" has been banned from creation. It matches the following blacklist entry: .*[A-Z ]{5,}.*

But there are *not* any 5 uppercase/whitespace character in a row in this name...

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://bar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benutzer:WikimediaNotifier&action=edit&uselang=en

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 10:17 PM

• bzimport set Reference to bz16173.

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Wiki.Melancholie wrote:

That change: http://bar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Titleblacklist&curid=9620&diff=68506&oldid=68472 fixed it, but why do those RegExps seem to be case-*in*-sensitive by default (the other way round than usual), *without* any notice/indication?

Wiki.Melancholie wrote:

See bug 16174