2011/7/26 Platonides Platonides@gmail.com
The requester clarified the request today: So for example if the user removes the email address, or replaces it with another but doesn't verify it, the user rights associated with their user group are automatically suspended, until a verified email address is provided, when they're automatically re-enabled.
I think this is already the case. If it's not, it's a bug. "Sysops only have sysop powers if autoconfirmed" would be a bit hard to configure but I think is also already possible.
That would not necessarily be a good idea. Enwiki has some adminbots that
only perform deletions/protections/whatever and don't make any edits. They'd never get autoconfirmed, unless the bot owner would do some otherwise useless edits with them.
Jelle
This would be more useful if there are situations where the "verified" status of an existing email address can be automatically revoked (eg if emails to the user bounce); I'm not sure if that's the case but if it isn't that's a separate issue.I'm fascinated by the idea and can see arguments both ways. I thought I'd bring it up here to see if anyone could help me think through it.
MediaWiki is installed on web servers. Giving a bounce email address to the wiki is out of scope. However, I would welcome a HOWTO on mediawiki.org about how to configure the email server to set aliases that would launch php maintenance/changeUser.php --you-are-no-longer-autoconfirmed (which we would add, but would be a couple of lines anyway)
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