Re: [Mediawiki-l] Preventing bogus User: pages?

^_^ Feel lucky... You poked the coding bone... Voila... http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NoBogusUserpages Fresh off the rack and made for your use. It stops creation (Not editing) of userpages for users who do not exist. I made sure that: * The extension does not block creation of userpages for IPv4 or IPv6 IP's. * You can give users (Sysops by default) the ability to create bogus userpages. * The extension properly uses only the part before the /, so you can't create [[User:Nonexistant]] or [[User:Nonexistant/subpage]] when Nonexistant does not exist. But it does not stop you from creating [[User:Dantman/subpage]] when Dantman exists, but 'Dantman/subpage' which is invalid, does not exist. Also, if you are using MediaWiki 1.12 it will use the new hook that lets us use a custom access restriction message instead of a generic one. Just see the warning on that page, it could be a little hazardous if you are using MW1.12a but have a version older than r26568 when the new hook was added. BTW, I used access restriction instead of ArticleSave. By doing that, the edit link won't show up (In pre 1.12a though it will show view source), and a user won't end up going to an edit page, and finding out that after they've typed a bunch of stuff up, they cannot create the page that they've been writing stuff for. ~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of: -The Gaiapedia (http://gaia.wikia.com) -Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG) -and Wiki-Tools.com (http://wiki-tools.com) Evan Prodromou wrote: