Hi,
We are managing
Demopaedia.org, a site which aims to give access to old and recent
versions of the Multilingual Demographic Dictionary (United Nations since 1958).
About 15 languages are already available in the first (
en-i.demopaedia.org/wiki/10) or
second edition (
en-ii.demopaedia.org/wiki/10).
A secondary aim is to open an encyclopedia (
en.demopaedia.org) on the Scientific Study of
Population, based on the corpus of terms already validated by the dictionary.
Based on mediawiki (1.16 moving to 1.18), the site is a corporate site. People allowed to
edit need to sign under their professional real name. Currently their login name
(user_name) is their real name (not a pseudo), sometimes transliterated without accent and
in roman characters (but not always, see Михаил Денисенко on
http://ru-ii.demopaedia.org/w/index.php?title=90&action=history)ory). Their e-mail address
is also mandatory.
I would like to change their login process by entering their e-mail address as a login and
having their real name in the history as well as for authorship. The simplest way could be
that the user_name, user_real_name and user_email fields are kept intact, but the login
process is authenticated by the e-mail address, keeping the same password that they have
entered. Thus people could have a unalterable user_name (given by me), a user_real_name
which could have accents or whatever and an e-mail address that they could change.
And here is my question, how can I do this and do I need any of the extensions like
Realnames, PageHistoryRealnames, ShowRealUsernames etc.
I spent some time googling but didn't find an easy solution.
Many thanks for any hint.
Nicolas
Nicolas Brouard INED
brouard(a)ined.fr