Guild Wars Wiki:Requests for technical administration/Username limits
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- Title
- Limit the size of a user's name to a maximum of 32 bytes and throttles the amount of accounts an IP can create per 24 hours to 4.
- Type
- Change to MediaWiki configuration
- Reason
- Restricts inappropriate usernames used for vandalism.
- Links
- Code
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$wgMaxNameChars = 32$wgAccountCreationThrottle = 2
- Possible pitfalls
- Currently existing usernames over 32 bytes would be unusable. However, as per this userlist, few, if any legitimate accounts would be affected.
