[Mediawiki-l] How can I moderate who registers?

George Herbert george.herbert at gmail.com
Mon Oct 23 18:32:53 UTC 2006


On 10/23/06, Tim Ware <tim at hyperarts.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Oct 23, 2006, at 10:45 AM, Justin Morgan wrote:
>
> >> That may not work. I want the site readable by all and editable by
> >> registered users. So I guess I really can't moderate the
> >> registrations without losing other functionality I need.
> >>
> >> Tim
> >
> > New users can go into a group that has read, but not edit permission.
> > You would then change their group membership to a group that can
> > edit as
> > part of the registration process.  Adding some code to shoot off an
> > email upon user creation shouldn't be too difficult.
> >
> > -Justin
>
> My big worry is that, like with a forum, that spambots will register
> automatically and then totally screw up the wiki with spam. Is
> MediaWiki pretty immune to this, given that there's no way to
> moderate registrations? I just don't have the bandwidth to monitor
> the wiki 24/7. Thanks.
>
> Tim
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If you do what we suggested, with new accounts read-only and manual burecrat
intervention required to write-authorize new accounts, then you should be
pretty safe...


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-george william herbert
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