Hi all,

I've just subscribed to this list and I have a couple of question about a modification I've done to MediaWiki. I've searched the archive and reading the FAQ but I've found no answer. (I'm new to MediaWiki.)

I'd like to grant permissions to edit articles only to people who fulfil some requirements. So, they'll have to fill an additional field which I'll read (with my eyes, I mean :-)) so that I decide who can edit. This can be accomplished easily by allowing editing to the emailconfirmed group only, and sending the e-mail confirmation to me with a reply-to to the user (thus I read the message which includes the additional field, and if it's OK I just reply the e-mail, so that the address can be confirmed by the user). Well, these changes are trivial... provided they are made in the original files (User.php, amongst them). However I don't like to modify the files but rather add the changes as an extension or similar.

Can that be done easily? (I found an extension to make custom login forms, but the preferences one has to be modified, too). Where can I find further information? Is there a simpler way to do what I want?

Thank you Javier