I've read this page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Documentation:Security
but I'd like to know how to require editors to log in first, and how
to
disable account creation.
Add the following lines to LocalSettings.php: # Prevent new user registrations - only users with sysop status can # create users. $wgWhitelistAccount = array ( "sysop" => 1 ); # You must be a logged in user to edit pages. Combining this # restriction with the previous restriction means we control who can # edit pages. $wgWhitelistEdit = true;
I finally got round to doing this (without the messy mail indentation etc) but it doesn't seem to have had any effect. We're running 1.3.1 for various reasons.
Is there a time lag for the changes to be implemented perhaps? any other clues?:-) thanks. the spammers have been getting busy...