https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30636
--- Comment #11 from Gregor Hagedorn <[email protected]> 2011-09-21 00:39:27 UTC --- See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Password_Reset It allows an admin (with 'passwordreset' permission) to reset the password for another user. It is necessary if users are in an collaboration/organisation context, where accounts are created by an admin and where users have not entered mail adresses. It is not necessary on WMF or self-registering, email-requiring wikis, but is necessary for mediawiki usage in small scale, managed collaborations. It worked fine in 1.17 and beyond (trunk), but naturally broke with the capturing of its SpecialPage name by mediawiki core. Renaming the SpecialPage in the extension is possible, but would create some confusion in existing installations. Renaming the NEW mediawiki core page to ResetPassword seems to make more sense in the short term. In the longer term, adding all functionality (the user-disabling function of Extension:Password_Reset is actually no longer needed) would be nice, of course. The urgent issue is, however, whether managed wikis can easily upgrade to 1.18 or need to be warned that essential extension functionality will break. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
