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
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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

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