On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Siebrand Mazeland s.mazeland@xs4all.nlwrote:
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
You can indeed do these sorts of things, but if you're not careful in what you restrict this way you'll find that you simply lock out all possibility of new users coming to your site and doing anything. A human won't wait around three months before they can edit, either!
These are usually meant to provide speed bumps to unlock advanced features after people have had a chance to acclimate (like page renaming, which can be much more disruptive when misused than merely editing pages).
-- brion