Hi again,
I am reformulating my (unanswered yet) question: would it be useful and easy on a standard
mediawiki site or even on wikipedia sites, to allow login authentication by not only
offering the unique pair (user_name; user_password) but also the pair (user_email;
user_password)?
Some pro arguments are that:
- email addresses are transliterated and can be entered easily on any keyboard
- Unicode user_name can be entered once (at registration) in Cyrillic or Arabic or Chinese
or French in a way that authors can choose. With Unicode, English transliteration of
authorship is no more mandatory and may be unattractive if your text has to be read
locally.
Some cons are:
- how to change the PHP code (I am confused with authplugin.php squelettes) for
authentication and HTML of Special:UserLogin by adding the mail address:
Username (or mail address): |___________________|
Password: |___________________|
- is there any security issue in allowing both options?
- is there any other code to alter?
Many thanks for any hint (or code)?
Nicolas
Le 10 févr. 2012 à 17:18, Nicolas Brouard INED a écrit :
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
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