Hiya,
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 19:42, Anne Wilson annew@kde.org wrote:
What I'd really like to see is the ability to say that you can't make any edits until you have been registered for a period of time, unless you are a member of a higher group. I doubt if the spammers would bother creating an account and coming back to post their spam three months later. I haven't seen anyone suggest that it actually is possible, though.
I haven't actually tried this, but based on what's on mediawiki.org, the following might do the trick: restrict editing to members of the "autoconfirmed" user group, and set $wgAutoConfirmAge to the desired amount of time (in seconds)[1].
There's also a the "Require Editor Priviledge" extension[2], which apparently restricts editing to a hand-chosen list of users.
1. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgAutoConfirmAge 2. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Require_Editor_Privilege
Anne