That is an excellent idea. Now, is there already a GUI where admins can
create accounts?
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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jim Wilson
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 3:39 PM
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Allow users to requset an account.
You could also lock down user account creation (which you've probably
already done), then change [[MediaWiki:Nologin]] to specify an email
address
to contact to request an account.
Something like: "Don't have a login? Contact somebody(a)somewhere.net"
On 2/6/07, Rob Church <robchur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 06/02/07, Anthony Smith <anthony.smith(a)fedex.com> wrote:
> I would like to allow users to request an account and then someone
has
> to approve it before they get access. I thought
this would be
something
in the FAQs or
some other help guide, but I did not find it.
You could write a special page extension accessible to logged-out
users, which would store their request in a database table, and send a
periodic email with a list of requests. You can then either manually
create these (sending passwords via email using the built-in support)
or perhaps write something fancier to facilitate one-click approval
and account creation.
A "poor man's" solution might be to allow anyone to register an
account, but limit editing to those in an "editor" group, which is
manually assigned to users on approval. This could be combined with
all or some of the above again (queue, reminders, automation).
Rob Church
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