Robert Leverington wrote:
One solution suggested would be to do this using the
toolserver, the
only trouble is that to do so would require user authentication -
which is not permitted by the rules.
"Tools and scripts must not ask users to
authenticate *using account
details from a Wikimedia wiki*."
As i understand it, you can't ask them to provide *their wiki password*,
but you could have an internal user/password (hashed, please) table, and
verify that your internal user is the same as the wiki's on creation:
Mailing him a password, requiring to post a token in the wiki to
activate his account, etc.
Then you can easily authenticate him.