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). 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 > [email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l Nicolas Brouard INED [email protected] _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
