Robert Leverington wrote:
One solution suggested would be to do this using the toolserver, the only trouble is that to do so would require user authentication - which is not permitted by the rules.
"Tools and scripts must not ask users to authenticate *using account details from a Wikimedia wiki*." As i understand it, you can't ask them to provide *their wiki password*, but you could have an internal user/password (hashed, please) table, and verify that your internal user is the same as the wiki's on creation: Mailing him a password, requiring to post a token in the wiki to activate his account, etc.
Then you can easily authenticate him.