From: Jens Ropers &lt;ropers(a)ropersonline.com&gt; Date: 1 October 2004 06:12:00 GMT+02:00 To: Wikimedia developers &lt;wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org&gt;rg>, randy(a)lemnar.com Cc: Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: Approved Edits Only Reply-To: Wikimedia developers &lt;wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org&gt; 1. This should solve your problem: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Preventing_Access Simply prevent anonymous editing and prevent new registrations (otherwise any Internet surfer could just register themselves). Then appoint a person (or a number of persons) who will be responsible for manually creating accounts for anybody who you want to be able to edit. All of these measures are described on the meta page as per the above link. <snip>

I was suprised not to see anything about this on the Meta Wiki, as it seems like a common practice to use on some Wikis. I am in a situation where i have a small Wiki and am the only Sysop. I really don't want to have to be checking every edit just in case it's vandalism. So far they have all been by unregistered users and whilst they may not have been destructive, they are generally annoying. Is there anyway i can only let registered users edit pages? I'm not so much bothered about people adding new pages, as they still need to be added to a menu somewhere to be really useful. Thanks for any help -Steve _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l