[Mediawiki-l] Restricintg registration for users

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Awwww, you are really one very lucky and fortunate guy. I left my website
open for registration at
Dummipedia.org<http://dummipedia.org/Free_Simplified_Online_Encyclopedia>for
almost 2 years and hardly anyone does.

PM Poon

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Waleed Pervaiz <wpervaiz at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> Gey guys,
>
> I'm relatively new to mediawiki, but learning fast. I want to be able to
> give access to only users whom I approve.
>
> I used these lines to disable view access for anonymous users:
>
> $wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false;
> $wgWhitelistRead =  array ( "Main Page", "Special:Userlogin",
> "Help:Contents");
>
>
> But a user can always login and start viewing. Is there any way that I
> could restrict registration? Either I approve of the user before his login
> starts working, or only I have access to "add" new users.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Waleed
>
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