Re: Enabling Extension:ConfirmAccount

2012-07-04 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, On 07/03/2012 11:32 PM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote: If that's the case, I'd like to suggest enabling the ConfirmAccount extension http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount - which can be configured to ask users for a username email address, and their bio/reasons for wanting to

Enabling Extension:ConfirmAccount

2012-07-03 Thread Dave Neary
Hi all, I just tried to create an account for the oVirt wiki and was kind of surprised that to do so I had to contact someone who already had an account. It seems like everyone who has an account can add new users, so it looks like this is basically a spam avoidance policy. Is that right?

Re: Enabling Extension:ConfirmAccount

2012-07-03 Thread Robert Middleswarth
On 07/03/2012 05:32 PM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/03/2012 11:22 AM, Dave Neary wrote: Hi all, I just tried to create an account for the oVirt wiki and was kind of surprised that to do so I had to contact someone who already had an account.

Re: Enabling Extension:ConfirmAccount

2012-07-03 Thread Karsten 'quaid' Wade
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/03/2012 02:37 PM, Robert Middleswarth wrote: On 07/03/2012 05:32 PM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote: That makes it public, but now we have a greater restriction on who can confirm accounts. Right now, anyone with an account can confirm, but