[Bug 15790] New users should have a configurable number of edits before they can create new Accounts
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15790
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--- Comment #14 from ^demon <innocentkiller@...> 2008-10-01
02:42:51 UTC ---
Block the user + account creation. He shouldn't be able to login and create
accounts at that point :)
If he logs out and creates via IP, then this bug wouldn't solve it anyway
(applying the edit-count requirement to a logged-in user). Counting edits of
IPs isn't an option, as they don't have a row in the User table (and creating
such a row would be a baaaaad idea). Plus, dynamic IPs, etc etc etc).
Requiring a certain number of edits to do something is the reason autoconfirm
exists. It allows us to set auto-rights based on simple criteria (x edits
and/or y days), which is what many wikis have set for the upload right, etc.
When you've got an anonymous access allowed wiki (such as dewiki), setting
rights to denied for normal users but allowed for anons and autoconfirmed
rather defeats the purpose. Setting the following:
> $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = true;
> $wgGroupPermissions['user']['createaccount'] = false;
> $wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirm']['createaccount'] = true;
...wouldn't make any sense, for createaccount or any other permission, really.
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