2010/5/12 Łukasz Garczewski <[email protected]>: > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Andrew Gradman > <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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.* > > At Wikia we have an extension called PrivateDomains. > > It does exactly (or almost exactly) what you want. Give it a try, > here's the source code: > > http://trac.wikia-code.com/browser/wikia/trunk/extensions/wikia/SpecialPrivateDomains > > Good luck! > > -- > Lucas 'TOR' Garczewski > Wikia Tech Team > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >
I don't know how your systems are setup, but if your e-mail addresses are tied to Active Directory or some other LDAP system then you might take a look at the LDAP Authentication plugin[0]. -Chad [0] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LDAP_Authentication _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
