That is an excellent idea. Now, is there already a GUI where admins can create accounts?
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jim Wilson Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 3:39 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Allow users to requset an account.
You could also lock down user account creation (which you've probably already done), then change [[MediaWiki:Nologin]] to specify an email address to contact to request an account.
Something like: "Don't have a login? Contact somebody@somewhere.net"
On 2/6/07, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/02/07, Anthony Smith anthony.smith@fedex.com wrote:
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.
You could write a special page extension accessible to logged-out users, which would store their request in a database table, and send a periodic email with a list of requests. You can then either manually create these (sending passwords via email using the built-in support) or perhaps write something fancier to facilitate one-click approval and account creation.
A "poor man's" solution might be to allow anyone to register an account, but limit editing to those in an "editor" group, which is manually assigned to users on approval. This could be combined with all or some of the above again (queue, reminders, automation).
Rob Church
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