[Mediawiki-l] Email approval before login

[Jan Steinman]

Here's what I did.

1) Disallow account creation.
2) Supply a form for people to request account creation.
3) Create the account for them, either as sysop, or by plugging the  
user table.
4) In either case, the user then has to request a password.

Example at: http://www.EcoReality.org/wiki/Join

I realize this creates a bit more administrative work, but assuming  
legit requests are low occurrence, it's less trouble than dealing  
with TONS of illegitimate accounts, which the gurus here have  
repeatedly warned us we should not delete!

In wikis I've been creating, I see about an 80% illegitimate account  
creation rate.

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