Hi Anne,
On 13-04-11 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.
This is already possible. Users can become "autoconfirmed" based on several criteria. Once of those is the age of an account. If the edit right is set only for autoconfirmed users and up, then registered users will not be able to edit until they are autoconfirmed. See:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgAutoConfirmAge http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgAutoConfirmCount
Cheers!
Siebrand