And what about an email verification ? An account is marked to be deleted if not verfied by email after 24h (needs a bot to do that) :) E. -----Message d'origine----- De : mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] De la part de Thompson, Graeme (AELE) Envoyé : mercredi 12 octobre 2005 10:56 À : MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Objet : RE: [Mediawiki-l] Delete passive users ? Or simply a user configurable limit of being able to only create 1 user per ip per hour. That would stop excessive user creation into the hundreds from an IP. -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of GraphoPhile Sent: 12 October 2005 09:24 To: mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Delete passive users ? Jani : Does this not provide a fine attack against Mediawikis: make a bot that generates and register users. After some trillions of random users added the wiki is on its knees. GP : From Rob answer I understood that the problem is for links that are created in the system when a user is active. If a bot "just" adds trillions of users I guess he's got no time for creating pages. So these passive users could be erased ??????? The need is of an alarm indicator of "over registration of users". _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l ****************************************** The information contained in, or attached to, this e-mail, may contain confidential information and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed and may be subject to legal privilege. If you have received this e-mail in error you should notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail, delete the message from your system and notify your system manager. Please do not copy it for any purpose, or disclose its contents to any other person. The views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused, directly or indirectly, by any virus transmitted in this email. ****************************************** _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

On 10/12/05, Rob Church <robchur(a)gmail.com> wrote: Isn't there an administrator option to require email authorization? I thought there was.. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Where can it be found? - How do I activate this option? Karl Kirst _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

> In LocalSettings.php, set: > > $wgEmailAuthentication = true;

Users aren't *required* to enter an email address in order to create a new MediaWiki account. I suppose we could code a software modification for this, however.

Users aren't *required* to enter an email address in order to create a new MediaWiki account. I suppose we could code a software modification for this, however.