On 09/07/07, jidanni(a)jidanni.org <jidanni(a)jidanni.org> wrote: Great, waste his time by posting the complete anti-solution to his

With respect *to the question*, it's not possible out of the box, although you could fairly easily hack the code so that form submission required entry of a real name. This isn't necessarily something we'd want in core, however. Rob Church _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

I would look at SpecialUserLogin.php in the includes directory. I am on 1.10.0 so take these line number references as needed .. In SpecialUserLogin.php around line 201 is a function addNewAccountInternal(). After the global statements the first bit looks to be sure that the 'domain' in the email is good. If not it kicks it out. So as a test I added this ##DSIG if( $this->mDomain == '' ) { $this->mainLoginForm( wfMsg( 'wrongpassword' ) ); return false; } Which is basically the same code except that I am looking at the domain and seeing if it is empty. This forces the process to kick out a null email (no domain no valid email). You could do the same thing with name and other fields as required. Note: If you make these changes you will also need to remove the text at the bottom of the create form that says these fields are not required. This could be made as an extension so that a switch in the localsettings would enable/disable this feature. Hope this helps DSig David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation PICK Guy 206-770-5585 davesigafoos(a)sanmar.com -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of KAndreou(a)rccl.com Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 5:25 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Require real name? Thanks Rob, that's what I figured and I agree that in the core we wouldn't want it set by default but, wouldn't you agree it would be nice to have it as a flag? In any case, were would I make the change to make it a requirement? mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote on 10-07-2007 04:00:06: question? _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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The short answer is that you shouldn't delete users. If a user has registered an offensive username or something and this is why you want them deleted, you can install the Renameuser extension - search mediawiki.org for Extension:Renameuser. On 09/07/07, G. Carter <gcarter2000(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- Gary Kirk _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Feel free to, obviously it would never be included in the MediaWiki codebase as deleting a user and thus their contributions contravenes the GFDL. On 09/07/07, Jet <jet123.jet123(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- Gary Kirk _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

I think the developers should design a Deleteuser extension for MediaWiki.

I've been thinking about this. I think the best solution is to allow the deletion of a user, with all of the user's edits assigned to a single special user (say, "Trash" or "Junk" or whatever). That way, the references all over wiki would be intact, i.e. they would still point to somewhere (in this case, the special user) and there would be no need to rename dozens or hundreds of accounts to things like "renamed-spammer-1" - the deletion script/specialpage would do the reassignment automagically.

I think the developers should design a Deleteuser extension for

Hi Everyone, I was wondering if anyone knows what section of the code and/or where to find the code that determines whether or not to generate a Table of

Contents and then generates the TOC if required? I have hopes to actually put the table of contents into a portlet (like navigation and the toolbox are)

The main problem with deleting users is that it breaks all of their contributions. Every contribution is made by a user - I don't know if the code could handle that user not existing. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Google and Yahoo are not wikis, they don't have history pages that list contributors. The closest you get is their forums - what do they do with forum posts when you delete your account? _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Agreed. The best approach would be to rename the user to some kind of "username-removed" and block it indefinitely. This discussion around deleting/renaming got me thinking. Is a history kept of user renames? mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote on 09-07-2007 16:13:13: _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Agreed. The best approach would be to rename the user to some kind of "username-removed" and block it indefinitely. This discussion around deleting/renaming got me thinking. Is a history kept of user renames? mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote on 09-07-2007 16:13:13: _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Isn't there a Special:Log/rename ? That extension is disabled on Xinki wikis at the moment so I can't check myself.