[Mediawiki-l] Email approval before login

[Mischa Peters]

> > Since it is already possible to restrict editing mediawiki to regisistered
> > users, seems like a simple, useful thing to add authentication of the email
> > address.
> >
> I agree.  It'd be a useful feature.  And according to Rob Church it's
> a feature already in the system.  It's not the default, because
> mediawiki is *wiki* software, and it's not a very wiki-like thing to
> restrict editing.

Could someone explain to me why an email verification of the user that
is about to edit on your wiki is restricting editing?!

Mischa