[Mediawiki-l] Restrict username at accout creation

[Rob Church]

On 25/04/06, yuriko-mediawiki at yuriko.net <yuriko-mediawiki at yuriko.net> wrote:
> I'm launching an small wiki site, in a week.
> I want to know how to restrict some username at account creation,
> such as root, admin, wiki, user, etc.
>
> Is there a black list of disabled user name?

There is a Username Blacklist extension available for MediaWiki 1.5.8
and above, which can be downloaded from
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/UsernameBlacklist.
See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Username_Blacklist for more
details.

This allows the creation of a simple but flexible regular expression
blacklist for usernames.


Rob Church