Hi there...Sheldon Rampton here, at Disinfopedia. After some irritating and time-consuming encounters with trolls, we have decided that we want to be able to require contributors to register and to provide a confirmed email address when they do so. I realize that this is a more restrictive policy than the Wikipedia has been following, but I think the additional inconvenience to users will be offset by the reduced troll-aggravation. I'd like to know how we can get this capability added to the software. The organization for which I work, the Center for Media and Democracy, has some funding available with which we would be able to pay a programmer for the necessary work (provided the cost is within reason), and of course we would be happy to have the resulting code included in the standard open source distribution so that other MediaWiki sites can use it also if they so choose. Currently the capacity we want is not built into the MediaWiki software. Although it is possible to flip a switch that makes preregistration necessary before posting, there's no way to require users to supply a verified email address as a condition of registration. We'd like to be able to use a registration system like the one that comes with vBulletin: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/register.php After a new user submits their email address, vBulletin displays a message that says something such as: In addition, we would like to be able if necessary to turn on a higher level of security that says, If someone here is willing to work with on this, please get in touch with me at <sheldon.rampton(a)verizon.net> or <sheldon(a)prwatch.org>rg>.