[Mediawiki-l] Restrict username at accout creation

[Gary Kirk]

Or alternatively you could create these accounts yourself, leaving a
notice to say they are blacklisted...?

On 4/25/06, Rob Church <robchur at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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Gary Kirk