An addition: after pondering on the page for sometime, it looks like it is not a global preference by default, and global preference can be set at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalPreferences (change en.wikipedia to any Wiki-site if needed)
Thanks Tito Dutta Note: If I don't reply to your email in 2 days, please feel free to remind me over email or phone call. On Tue, 12 May 2020 at 06:36, Tito Dutta <trulyt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > They have added an additional layer. This was a community wishlist > request. Some of you might find it interesting > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Ilana Fried <ifr...@wikimedia.org> > Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 at 03:31 > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] New Feature from Community Tech: Enhanced Password > Reset > To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org> > > > Hello everyone, > > > The Community Tech team[1] has released a new feature: Enhanced Password > Reset[2]. We developed this feature in response to the #3 wish[3] from the > 2019 > Community Wishlist Survey[4]. With this feature, you can prevent password > reset emails from being sent unless both your username and email address > are provided on Special:PasswordReset. This is an optional feature, > available in the “Email options” section of Preferences. If you enable the > feature, you can reduce harassment through unsolicited password reset > emails. For more information, you can visit the Help:Password Reset page[5] > and the project page[6]. > > > Thank you, > > > Ilana Fried > > Product Manager, Community Tech > > > [1]. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech > [2]. > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Reset_password#I%E2%80%99m_getting_password_reset_emails_that_I_didn%E2%80%99t_request._How_do_I_prevent_this_from_happening > ? > [3]. > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Anti-harassment/Add_an_option_to_require_email_address_and_username_to_reset_password > [4]. > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Results > [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Reset_password > [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Password_Reset_Update > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >
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