[Mediawiki-l] Disabling account creation

Carlton B carltonb at mindspring.com
Mon Apr 25 11:04:24 UTC 2005


Thanks so much for your help, wasn't expecting an answer so soon.   You have
been answering questions around the clock, I can't tell which time zone you
sleep in.

-Carlton

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org
> [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of Brion Vibber
> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 6:43 PM
> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Disabling account creation
>
>
> Carlton B wrote:
> > Thanks Brion... still having problems though.
> > The text of  [[MediaWiki:Loginprompt]] is:  "You must have
> cookies enabled
> > to log in to Takipedia."
> > I need to change that, but it doesn't hide the fields that a
> user could use
> > to create a new account.
>
> If you have set $wgWhitelistAccount to disable user account creation,
> those form controls will not be shown.
>
> Also make sure you're looking at the page as an anonymous user to
> confirm you're looking at the correct display.
>
> > Is Special:Userlogin the page to edit, and if so, how is it
> possible to edit
> > it?  Even when logged in as a sysop, this page has no edit tabs.
>
> There is not a page Special:Userlogin that you can edit; it's generated
> by code. All the interface text on the special pages comes from the
> language-specific messages, which are imported into the database at
> install time and are editable as the various MediaWiki: pages. These are
> all listed at Special:Allmessages.
>
> If you really, really need to change the layout of Special:Userlogin,
> take a look at includes/templates/Userlogin.php. However I don't think
> you need to touch anything in there to do what you've asked about.
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
>




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