[Mediawiki-l] Can I customize my mediawiki to restrict account-creation to people with our school's email address?

[Andrew Gradman]

Hello Mediawiki list,

I posted this question *in more detail at the Wikipedia Reference
Desk*<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Computing#Can_I_customize_my_mediawiki_to_only_allow_people_with_our_school.27s_email_address_to_create_accounts.3F>,
and the  answerer suggested I forward it here.  If this is not the right
place to ask this question, please let me know where to go next?  Here is
what I posted at the reference desk:

*I'm on the student senate at my school, and we want to customize our
> mediawiki install so it only lets someone create an account (i.e. edit) if
> their email address ends in @[school_name].edu. We also want to force their
> username to be the [first].[last]@ from their email address. Later, we might
> expand this to more schools, so we would want the flexibility to add other
> @[school_name].edu's to have the ability to create accounts.*
>
> *Question 1: Is that possible?*
> *Question 2: Howso? Thanks! *
>

Thanks!

Andrew