https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44943
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Bug ID: 44943
Summary: Account creation MediaWiki API module
(action=createaccount) help needs cleanup
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: API
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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From <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php>:
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* action=createaccount *
Create a new user account.
This module requires write rights
This module only accepts POST requests
Parameters:
name - User Name
This parameter is required
password - Password (ignored if mailpassword is set)
domain - Domain (optional)
token - Account creation token obtained in first request
email - Email address of user
realname - Real Name of user
mailpassword - Whether to generate and mail a random password to the
user
reason - Optional reason for creating the account (used when
mailpassword is set)
language - Language code to set for the user.
Examples:
api.php?action=createaccount&name=testuser&password=test123
api.php?action=createaccount&name=testmailuser&mailpassword=true&reason=MyReason
Help page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Account creation
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* It should be "User name" or "Username"; may help to have a pointer here to
what constitutes a valid user name (length limit, character restrictions,
prefix restrictions, etc.)...
* It's completely unclear what the "Domain" parameter is (it's equally unclear
in the GUI as well...); I think most people would assume this would the wiki's
domain name (e.g., "en.wikipedia.org")
* "E-mail" is hyphenated in the MediaWiki interface, I believe
* "Real name", not "Real Name"
* Real name field isn't marked optional (or disabled... not even sure it works
on Wikimedia wikis due a configuration variable)
* It's unclear how you set mailpassword (&mailpassword=true perhaps or
&mailpassword=1)
* It's unclear whether the reason field is used when mailpassword is _not_ set
* Not sure how the language parameter got in here... this isn't available via
index.php, is it?
* Help page URL is missing an underscore
I'm not totally thrilled all of this got through code review and ended up in
production, to be honest.
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