Can't create new Hitchwiki account

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Can't create new Hitchwiki account #195

Open ale-xy opened 3 years ago

ale-xy commented 3 years ago

Recently I heard couple of reports that people can’t create a Hitchwiki account. The error message is “Your biography must me at least 20 words”, although they type more than 20 words. I tried to create a new account myself with the same result.

zrthstr commented 3 years ago

Can replicate. Things that i tested and excluded as the problem:

cyrillic letters not being counted in the bio
"+" being blocked in the email username

ale-xy commented 1 year ago

Hi, I heard new reports regarding this issue. Any updates on this?

ale-xy commented 1 year ago

"+" being blocked in the email username

plus sign in the email doesn't seem to relate to the minimum 20 words limitation

ale-xy commented 5 months ago

The issue is still there

tillwenke commented 5 months ago

Get it. I agree that this shoulnt occur. Do you think we should encourage English bios?

ale-xy commented 5 months ago

Get it. I agree that this shoulnt occur. Do you think we should encourage English bios?

Not sure I understand your question. This issue was closed as "completed" so I expected the problem has been fixed, but it's not.

As Hitchwiki is a multi-language project, it should allow non-English authors to join and contribute in their native languages.

guaka commented 5 months ago

https://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:Version

worth a try to upgrade https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount #206

but this may also require upgrading mediawiki #207

I'll try take a look at this

guaka commented 5 months ago

of course a workaround is to just put something in English in the description, once the user is accepted it can be changed anyway