[Mediawiki-l] hiding mailto links from users who are not logged in

[Philip Beach]

Surely there are many different ways to do this but the most
straightforward way would be to place all the email addresses in a
page only viewable by logged-in users. Search mediawiki.org for user
rights management.

On 1/28/09, Joel Uckelman <uckelman at nomic.net> wrote:
> I'm migrating from a custom web site to MediaWiki a collection of pages
> which
> contain information for various games, including player lists with contact
> information (mostly email addresses). The old site only shows the email
> addresses (as mailto links) when a user is loged in; if you browse to one
> of these pages without being logged in, you see names only, without the
> mailto links. The purpose of this is to hinder address harvesters, the
> assumption being that they won't bother to get an account on our site.
>
> Is there a way to do this with MediaWiki?
>
> --
> J.
>
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