Difference between revisions of "User:GooPie4o"
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Latest revision as of 11:12, 3 June 2012
I created the user "Fake" in order to test how hard it is for a spammer to create new accounts. I think email verification for new users should reduce spam significantly. Only Captchas is apparently not enough. It would be nice if somebody with wiki/root rights enables email validation for this mediawiki.
the config required should look like this:
$wgEnableEmail = true; // enable basic e-mail features $wgEmailAuthentication = true; // require email authentication for using any email function (except password reminder which works independently from this setting) $wgEmailConfirmToEdit = true; // requireas a confirmed address for editing $wgGroupPermissions ['*']['edit'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions ['emailconfirmed']['edit'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions ['sysop']['edit'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['user']['edit'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions ['*']['createpage'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['user']['createpage'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions ['emailconfirmed']['createpage'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions ['sysop']['createpage'] = true;