From: "Anthony Smith" anthony.smith@fedex.com
I would like to allow users to request an account and then someone has to approve it before they get access. I thought this would be something in the FAQs or some other help guide, but I did not find it.
That's what I did at http://www.EcoReality.org/wiki/Join
It uses a web-based email form (which has it's own dangers -- know what you're doing, or use a good one) to send registration email to a human being who then directly adds a user record to MySQL and sends the new user a message, asking them to enter their assigned user name and click "Mail me a new password". I also modified "MediaWiki:passwordremindertext" to include a lot of help for first- timers, including a link to go to their user page and some suggestions for preferences.
This works well for low-volume. I'd want something easier if there were as many as even one request a day.
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