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ext-infobox ext-status-stable"> <caption><b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Extensions" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Extensions">MediaWiki extensions manual</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Extensions" title="Manual:Extensions"> </a></span></b></caption> <tbody><tr class="infobox-header ext-infobox-header notheme"> <th colspan="2"><figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#Content" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/OOjs_UI_icon_advanced-invert.svg/40px-OOjs_UI_icon_advanced-invert.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/OOjs_UI_icon_advanced-invert.svg/60px-OOjs_UI_icon_advanced-invert.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/OOjs_UI_icon_advanced-invert.svg/80px-OOjs_UI_icon_advanced-invert.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <span class="ext-infobox-name">ConfirmAccount</span><br /> <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension_status" title="Special:MyLanguage/Extension status">Release status:</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Extension_status" title="Extension status"> </a></span> stable</th> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="ext-infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:ConfirmAccounts.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/ConfirmAccounts.png/350px-ConfirmAccounts.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="101" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/ConfirmAccounts.png/525px-ConfirmAccounts.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/ConfirmAccounts.png/700px-ConfirmAccounts.png 2x" data-file-width="1108" data-file-height="320" /></a></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="ext-infobox-type"><b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#type" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension">Implementation</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#type" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></b></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Security" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Security">User identity</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Security" title="Manual:Security"> </a></span>, <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Database_layout" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Database layout">Database</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Database_layout" title="Manual:Database layout"> </a></span>, <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Special_pages" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Special pages">Special page</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Special_pages" title="Manual:Special pages"> </a></span> </td></tr><tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#description" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension">Description</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#description" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></b></td> <td>Requires submission and approval of accounts.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#username" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension">Author(s)</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#username" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></b></td> <td><a href="/wiki/User:Aaron_Schulz" title="User:Aaron Schulz">Aaron Schulz</a><sup><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Aaron_Schulz" title="User talk:Aaron Schulz">talk</a></sup></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Compatibility#mediawiki_extensions" title="Special:MyLanguage/Compatibility">Compatibility policy</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Compatibility#mediawiki_extensions" title="Compatibility"> </a></span></b></td> <td>Snapshots releases along with MediaWiki. Master is not backward compatible.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#needs-updatephp" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension"><abbr title="'php update.php' needed after installation"><b>Database changes</b></abbr></a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#needs-updatephp" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></td> <td>Yes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#table1" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension">Tables</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#table1" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></b></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:ConfirmAccount/account_requests_table" title="Special:MyLanguage/Extension:ConfirmAccount/account requests table">account_requests</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount/account_requests_table" title="Extension:ConfirmAccount/account requests table"> </a></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:ConfirmAccount/account_credentials_table" title="Special:MyLanguage/Extension:ConfirmAccount/account credentials table">account_credentials</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount/account_credentials_table" title="Extension:ConfirmAccount/account credentials table"> </a></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#license" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension">License</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#license" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></b></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="//www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-standalone.html">GNU General Public License 2.0 or later</a></td> </tr><tr> <td><b>Download</b></td> <td><div class="plainlinks"><a href="/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor/ConfirmAccount" title="Special:ExtensionDistributor/ConfirmAccount"><b>Download extension</b></a> <br />Git <sup>[<a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Download_from_Git" title="Special:MyLanguage/Download from Git">?</a>]</sup>: <ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-ConfirmAccount/archive/master.tar.gz">Download Git master</a></span></li> <li><a href="https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmAccount" class="extiw" title="git:mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmAccount">browse repository</a> (<a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/ECAC" class="extiw" title="phab:diffusion/ECAC">Phabricator</a> · <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-ConfirmAccount">GitHub</a>)</li> <li><a href="https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmAccount/%2Blog/master" class="extiw" title="git:mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmAccount/+log/master">commit history</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-ConfirmAccount/graphs/contributors">repository contributors (GitHub)</a></li> <li><a href="https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/project:mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmAccount" class="extiw" title="gerrit:q/project:mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmAccount">code review</a></li></ul></div><br /><a href="https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmAccount/%2B/HEAD/README.txt" class="extiw" title="git:mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmAccount/+/HEAD/README.txt">README</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" colspan="2"> <div class="mw-collapsible-header"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#parameters" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension">Parameters</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#parameters" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></div> <div class="mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><span class="configvariable" title="Create a user talk page with a welcome message for accepted users. The message can be customized by editing MediaWiki:Confirmaccount-welc.">$wgAutoWelcomeNewUsers</span></li> <li><span class="configvariable" title="Prospective account request types. Format is an array of (integer => (subpage param,user group,autotext)) pairs. The integer keys enumerate the request types. The key for a type should not change. Each type has its own request queue at Special:ConfirmAccount/<subpage param>. When a request of a certain type is approved, the new user: (a) is placed in the <user group> group (if not User or *) (b) has <autotext> appended to his or her user page">$wgAccountRequestTypes</span></li> <li><span class="configvariable" title="Show notice for open requests to admins? This is cached, but still can be expensive on sites with thousands of requests.">$wgConfirmAccountNotice</span></li> <li><span class="configvariable" title="If ConfirmEdit is installed and set to trigger for createaccount, inject CAPTCHAs for requests too?">$wgConfirmAccountCaptchas</span></li> <li><span class="configvariable" title="Configuration for extra arguments that may be included in the admin email message. Extra parameters that could be added: [ 'email', 'real_name', 'bio', 'notes', 'urls', 'ip' ]. The order you specify here is the order in which you can use the parameters. $wgConfirmAdminEmailExtraFields is an array, the parameters 1 and 2 of the message will always be: 1 - the username and 2 - the confirm URL.">$wgConfirmAdminEmailExtraFields</span></li> <li><span class="configvariable" title="Which form elements to show at Special:RequestAccount?">$wgConfirmAccountRequestFormItems</span></li> <li><span class="configvariable" title="Send an email to this address when account requestors confirm their email. Set to false to skip this. It might be useful to point this to a mailing list.">$wgConfirmAccountContact</span></li> <li><span class="configvariable" title="If files can be attached, what types can be used? (MIME data is checked)">$wgAccountRequestExts</span></li> <li><span class="configvariable" title="How many requests can an IP make at once?">$wgAccountRequestThrottle</span></li> <li><span class="configvariable" title="Storage repositories. 'accountreqs' is the location of attached files for pending requests and 'accountcreds' is the location of credential files.">$wgConfirmAccountFSRepos</span></li> <li><span class="configvariable" title="How long to store rejected requests? Default is one week.">$wgRejectedAccountMaxAge</span></li> <li><span class="configvariable" title="IMPORTANT: do we store the user's notes and credentials for successful account request? This will be stored indefinetely and will be accessible to users with crediential lookup permissions">$wgConfirmAccountSaveInfo</span></li> <li><span class="configvariable" title="If set, will add {{DEFAULTSORT:sortkey}} to userpages for auto-categories. The sortkey will be made by doing a regex search and replace on the title. Set this variable to false to avoid sortkey use. For example, setting this variable to [ '/^(.+) ([^ ]+)$/', '$2, $1' ] will do {{DEFAULTSORT:firstname, lastname}}.">$wgConfirmAccountSortkey</span></li> <li><span class="configvariable" title="Text to add to bio pages if the above option is on">$wgAutoUserBioText</span></li> <li><span class="configvariable" title="Can blocked users with "prevent account creation" request accounts?">$wgAccountRequestWhileBlocked</span></li> <li><span class="configvariable" title="How long after accounts have been requested/held before they count as 'rejected'? Default is one month.">$wgConfirmAccountRejectAge</span></li> <li><span class="configvariable" title="Set the person's bio as their userpage?">$wgMakeUserPageFromBio</span></li></ul></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" colspan="2"> <div class="mw-collapsible-header"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#rights" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension">Added rights</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#rights" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></div> <div class="mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li>confirmaccount</li> <li>confirmaccount-notify</li> <li>requestips</li> <li>lookupcredentials</li></ul> </div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" colspan="2"> <div class="mw-collapsible-header"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#hook" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension">Hooks used</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#hook" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r6219282">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none none;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist mw-collapsible-content"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/AdminLinks" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/AdminLinks">AdminLinks</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/AdminLinks" class="mw-redirect" title="Manual:Hooks/AdminLinks"> </a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/AuthChangeFormFields" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/AuthChangeFormFields">AuthChangeFormFields</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/AuthChangeFormFields" title="Manual:Hooks/AuthChangeFormFields"> </a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/BeforePageDisplay" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/BeforePageDisplay">BeforePageDisplay</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/BeforePageDisplay" title="Manual:Hooks/BeforePageDisplay"> </a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates">LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates" title="Manual:Hooks/LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates"> </a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/SkinTemplateNavigation::Universal" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/SkinTemplateNavigation::Universal">SkinTemplateNavigation::Universal</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/SkinTemplateNavigation::Universal" title="Manual:Hooks/SkinTemplateNavigation::Universal"> </a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/SpecialPageBeforeExecute" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/SpecialPageBeforeExecute">SpecialPageBeforeExecute</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/SpecialPageBeforeExecute" title="Manual:Hooks/SpecialPageBeforeExecute"> </a></span></li></ul></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td title="This only includes downloads from Special:ExtensionDistributor. Other download methods such as git or bundled extensions are not included."><b>Quarterly downloads</b></td> <td>194 (Ranked 29<sup>th</sup>)</td> </tr> <tr> <td title=""><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount"><b>Public wikis using</b></a></td> <td>953 (Ranked 279<sup>th</sup>)</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="ext-infobox-translate"> <a href="https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate/ext-confirmaccount" class="extiw" title="translatewiki:Special:Translate/ext-confirmaccount">Translate the ConfirmAccount extension</a> if it is available at translatewiki.net</td> </tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"> </tr> <tr> <td> <b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Phabricator" title="Special:MyLanguage/Phabricator">Issues</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Phabricator" title="Phabricator"> </a></span></b></td> <td><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-extensions-confirmaccount" class="extiw" title="phab:tag/mediawiki-extensions-confirmaccount">Open tasks</a> · <a class="external text" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?projects=MediaWiki-extensions-ConfirmAccount">Report a bug</a></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p>The <b>ConfirmAccount</b> extension disables direct account creation and requires the approval of new accounts by a bureaucrat. Direct account creation can still be enabled (if you want <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Administrators" title="Special:MyLanguage/Administrators">Administrators</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Administrators" class="mw-disambig" title="Administrators"> </a></span>/<a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:User_rights_and_groups" title="Special:MyLanguage/Help:User rights and groups">Bureaucrats</a> to be able to directly make them) by configuring <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:User_rights" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:User rights">User rights</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:User_rights" title="Manual:User rights"> </a></span>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:ConfirmEdit" title="Special:MyLanguage/Extension:ConfirmEdit">ConfirmEdit</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit" title="Extension:ConfirmEdit"> </a></span> extension can be used (in conjunction with the <i>ConfirmAccount extension</i>) in order to use <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Combating_spam#CAPTCHA" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Combating spam">captchas</a> to stop flood requests (since version 1.39). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Installation">Installation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:ConfirmAccount&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Installation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor/ConfirmAccount" title="Special:ExtensionDistributor/ConfirmAccount">Download</a> and move the extracted <code>ConfirmAccount</code> folder to your <code>extensions/</code> directory.<br />Developers and code contributors should install the extension <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Download_from_Git" title="Special:MyLanguage/Download from Git">from Git</a> instead, using:<code class="mw-code mw-highlight" style="display:block">cd extensions/<br />git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmAccount</code></li> <li>Add the following code at the bottom of your <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:LocalSettings.php" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:LocalSettings.php">LocalSettings.php</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:LocalSettings.php" title="Manual:LocalSettings.php"> </a></span> file: <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-php mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="nx">wfLoadExtension</span><span class="p">(</span> <span class="s1">'ConfirmAccount'</span> <span class="p">);</span> <span class="nv">$wgGroupPermissions</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">'*'</span><span class="p">][</span><span class="s1">'createaccount'</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">false</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="c1">// REQUIRED to enforce account requests via this extension</span> <span class="nv">$wgGroupPermissions</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">'bureaucrat'</span><span class="p">][</span><span class="s1">'createaccount'</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">true</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="c1">// optional to allow account creation by this trusted user group</span> </pre></div></li> <li>Run the <b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Update.php" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Update.php">update script</a></b> which will automatically create the necessary database tables that this extension needs.</li> <li><a href="#Configuration">Further configure as required.</a></li> <li>Ensure the wiki has write permissions on <code><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:$wgUploadDirectory" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:$wgUploadDirectory">$wgUploadDirectory</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:$wgUploadDirectory" title="Manual:$wgUploadDirectory"> </a></span></code>.</li> <li>Please also note the <a href="#Known_issues">known issues</a>, because they may affect your wiki.</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Yes" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/OOjs_UI_icon_check-constructive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_check-constructive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/OOjs_UI_icon_check-constructive.svg/23px-OOjs_UI_icon_check-constructive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/OOjs_UI_icon_check-constructive.svg/30px-OOjs_UI_icon_check-constructive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></span></span> <b>Done</b> – Navigate to <a href="/wiki/Special:Version" title="Special:Version">Special:Version</a> on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Configuration">Configuration</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:ConfirmAccount&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Configuration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Optional">Optional</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:ConfirmAccount&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Optional"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are several configuration variables that can be adjusted in <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:LocalSettings.php" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:LocalSettings.php">LocalSettings.php</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:LocalSettings.php" title="Manual:LocalSettings.php"> </a></span>, after <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-php mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr"><span class="nx">wfLoadExtension</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'ConfirmAccount'</span><span class="p">);</span></code> </p><p>See part <code>"config"</code> in <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Extension_registration" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Extension registration">extension.json</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Extension_registration" title="Manual:Extension registration"> </a></span> for all the variables that can be set. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r6651107">.mw-parser-output .note{background-position:left 7px top 50%;padding:0.5em 0.5em 0.5em 40px;margin:0.5em 0;overflow:hidden;background-color:#f8f9fa;color:#333;background-repeat:no-repeat;border:1px solid #ddd}.mw-parser-output .note-inline{display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle}.mw-parser-output .note-info{background-color:#eaf3ff;color:#333;background-image:url("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/OOjs_UI_icon_information-progressive.svg");background-size:25px;border-color:#a3caff;padding-left:40px;min-height:25px}.mw-parser-output .note-reminder{background-color:#fff9ea;color:#333;background-image:url("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/OOjs_UI_icon_lightbulb-yellow.svg");background-size:25px;border-color:#fc3;min-height:25px}.mw-parser-output .note-warn{background-color:#fff9ea;color:#333;background-image:url("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/OOjs_UI_icon_alert-warning.svg");background-size:25px;border-color:#fc3;min-height:25px}.mw-parser-output .note-error{background-color:#fee7e6;color:#333;background-image:url("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/OOjs_UI_icon_notice-destructive.svg");background-size:25px;border-color:#c33;min-height:25px}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .note{background-color:transparent;color:inherit}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .note{background-color:transparent;color:inherit}}</style><div role="note" class="note note-info">Extension by default use content of the person's bio as default content for userpage. This behavior can be disabled, if <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-php mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="nv">$wgMakeUserPageFromBio</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">false</span><span class="p">;</span></code></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r6651107" /><div role="note" class="note note-info">To disable the biography in form, set <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-php mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="nv">$wgConfirmAccountRequestFormItems</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">'Biography'</span><span class="p">][</span><span class="s1">'enabled'</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">false</span><span class="p">;</span></code></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r6651107" /><div role="note" class="note note-info">By default, a 6 word biography is required for the new user to submit the request form. To adjust this requirement, e.g. for 10 words set <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-php mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="nv">$wgConfirmAccountRequestFormItems</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">'Biography'</span><span class="p">][</span><span class="s1">'minWords'</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">10</span><span class="p">;</span></code></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r6651107" /><div role="note" class="note note-info">Sysops can still create accounts directly, if not disabled by set <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-php mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="nv">$wgGroupPermissions</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">'sysop'</span><span class="p">][</span><span class="s1">'createaccount'</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">false</span><span class="p">;</span> </pre></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r6651107" /><div role="note" class="note note-info">If only logged-in users are allowed to view pages, make sure you add the request account page to <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:$wgWhitelistRead" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:$wgWhitelistRead">$wgWhitelistRead</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:$wgWhitelistRead" title="Manual:$wgWhitelistRead"> </a></span>. <p>For example: </p> <div style="white-space: nowrap;" class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-php mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="nv">$wgWhitelistRead</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span> <span class="s1">'Special:RequestAccount'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'Main Page'</span> <span class="p">];</span> </pre></div> <i>In other languages you have to replace "Main Page" and "Special:RequestAccount" with their local names, for instance "Hauptseite" and "Spezial:Benutzerkonto_beantragen" in a German wiki.</i></div> <p>To further categorize users based on their interests, you can set up <b>MediaWiki:Requestaccount-areas</b>. This should be in a format like: </p> <dl><dd>*Topic|Topic wiki page|text to append to all interested users' bios |text to append to all interested users' bios in group0|text to append to all interested users' bios group1|text to append to all interested users' bios in group2|...</dd></dl> <p>These group numbers are based on <code>$wgAccountRequestTypes</code>. So if 0 is the index for 'authors', then 'authors' interested in a topic will have the group0 text appended to their biography. This can be useful, say, if users can be approved as either authors or editors. Authors can have "category:X authors" where X is a topic, like "mathematics", and editors can have "category:x editors". You can have as many groups as you want, but you need at least one. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Minimal">Minimal</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:ConfirmAccount&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Minimal"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>To attempt to prevent spam, instead of captchas, blacklists and filters; manually moderate new user registrations, with a simpler <i>Request account</i>. Requesting only a username, email address and brief message. Add the following to LocalSettings.php after the line <i>require_once "$IP/extensions/ConfirmAccount/ConfirmAccount.php";</i>. </p> <div style="overflow:auto;" class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-php mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span> <span class="nv">$wgMakeUserPageFromBio</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">false</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="nv">$wgAutoWelcomeNewUsers</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">false</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="nv">$wgConfirmAccountRequestFormItems</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span> <span class="s1">'UserName'</span> <span class="o">=></span> <span class="p">[</span> <span class="s1">'enabled'</span> <span class="o">=></span> <span class="k">true</span> <span class="p">],</span> <span class="s1">'RealName'</span> <span class="o">=></span> <span class="p">[</span> <span class="s1">'enabled'</span> <span class="o">=></span> <span class="k">false</span> <span class="p">],</span> <span class="s1">'Biography'</span> <span class="o">=></span> <span class="p">[</span> <span class="s1">'enabled'</span> <span class="o">=></span> <span class="k">false</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'minWords'</span> <span class="o">=></span> <span class="mi">50</span> <span class="p">],</span> <span class="s1">'AreasOfInterest'</span> <span class="o">=></span> <span class="p">[</span> <span class="s1">'enabled'</span> <span class="o">=></span> <span class="k">false</span> <span class="p">],</span> <span class="s1">'CV'</span> <span class="o">=></span> <span class="p">[</span> <span class="s1">'enabled'</span> <span class="o">=></span> <span class="k">false</span> <span class="p">],</span> <span class="s1">'Notes'</span> <span class="o">=></span> <span class="p">[</span> <span class="s1">'enabled'</span> <span class="o">=></span> <span class="k">true</span> <span class="p">],</span> <span class="s1">'Links'</span> <span class="o">=></span> <span class="p">[</span> <span class="s1">'enabled'</span> <span class="o">=></span> <span class="k">false</span> <span class="p">],</span> <span class="s1">'TermsOfService'</span> <span class="o">=></span> <span class="p">[</span> <span class="s1">'enabled'</span> <span class="o">=></span> <span class="k">false</span> <span class="p">],</span> <span class="p">];</span> </pre></div> <p>Optionally tweak <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:system_message" title="Special:MyLanguage/Help:system message">system messages</a>: requestaccount-text, requestaccount-notes, requestaccount-ext-text, requestaccount-acc-text. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Usage">Usage</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:ConfirmAccount&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Usage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Create_account_interaction_diagram.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Create_account_interaction_diagram.svg/350px-Create_account_interaction_diagram.svg.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="302" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Create_account_interaction_diagram.svg/525px-Create_account_interaction_diagram.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Create_account_interaction_diagram.svg/700px-Create_account_interaction_diagram.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="785" data-file-height="678" /></a><figcaption>Interaction diagram of a successful account creation process.</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ConfirmAccountsForm.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/thumb/4/4f/ConfirmAccountsForm.png/350px-ConfirmAccountsForm.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="316" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/thumb/4/4f/ConfirmAccountsForm.png/525px-ConfirmAccountsForm.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/thumb/4/4f/ConfirmAccountsForm.png/700px-ConfirmAccountsForm.png 2x" data-file-width="1103" data-file-height="995" /></a><figcaption>Confirming account requests on <code>Special:ConfirmAccounts</code> (beta form)</figcaption></figure> <ol><li>As a bureaucrat (or other user with the <i>confirmaccount</i> permission), browse to <code>Special:ConfirmAccounts</code></li> <li>Click <i>Review</i></li> <li>You will see the whole form with the users' data. Carefully review the form, and proceed to creating the account or rejecting the request.</li> <li>If you chose to create the account, the user's biography will become their userpage and the userpage will be automatically created with the default summary of <i>Creating user page with biography of new user.</i></li> <li>After an account is created, the data input by the user at the time of the request can be referred to by typing the username at <code>Special:UserCredentials</code></li></ol> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r6651107" /><div role="note" class="note note-info">In order for bureaucrats to get notified of pending requests you need to set an email / mailing list in <code>LocalSettings.php</code>: <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-php mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="nv">$wgConfirmAccountContact</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">'Bureaucrat@example.com'</span><span class="p">;</span> </pre></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sending_notification_email_to_multiple_users">Sending notification email to multiple users</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:ConfirmAccount&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Sending notification email to multiple users"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This extension allows sending emails to multiple approvers to confirm the account if these users have the <code>confirmaccount-notify</code> permission. This is in addition/alternative to the <code>$wgConfirmAccountContact</code> setting. </p><p>This can be achieved (for instance for bureaucrats) by providing them this permission by adding the following to the <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:LocalSettings.php" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:LocalSettings.php">LocalSettings.php</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:LocalSettings.php" title="Manual:LocalSettings.php"> </a></span> file: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-php mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="nv">$wgGroupPermissions</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">'bureaucrat'</span><span class="p">][</span><span class="s1">'confirmaccount-notify'</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">true</span><span class="p">;</span> </pre></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Enhancements">Enhancements</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:ConfirmAccount&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Enhancements"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Pruning_Frequency">Pruning Frequency</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:ConfirmAccount&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Pruning Frequency"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>To combat robot-requests, default settings prevent rejected email accounts from re-requesting an account for a random period of time after rejection. If you want rejected emails to be able to re-request accounts immediately after rejection, or after a fixed wait-time (days, weeks, months, or even years after rejection), apply the following 2 steps: </p><p>1) In the <code>LocalSettings.php</code> file, after required declaration, set Rejected-Age to 0 (for immediate expiration on rejection), or to your desired wait-time, in seconds: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-php mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="nx">wfLoadExtension</span><span class="p">(</span> <span class="s1">'ConfirmAccount'</span> <span class="p">);</span> <span class="nv">$wgRejectedAccountMaxAge</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">;</span> </pre></div> <p>2) Add one line to the file <code>/frontend/specialpages/actions/RequestAccount_body.php</code> at the very end of the function <code>showForm()</code> which shows the Request form, to force pruning right before any new request: </p><p><b>original code:</b> </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-php mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="nv">$out</span><span class="o">-></span><span class="na">addWikiMsg</span><span class="p">(</span> <span class="s1">'requestaccount-footer'</span> <span class="p">);</span> <span class="p">}</span> </pre></div> <p><b>new code:</b> </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-php mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="nv">$out</span><span class="o">-></span><span class="na">addWikiMsg</span><span class="p">(</span> <span class="s1">'requestaccount-footer'</span> <span class="p">);</span> <span class="c1"># PRUNE</span> <span class="nx">ConfirmAccount</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="na">runAutoMaintenance</span><span class="p">();</span> <span class="p">}</span> </pre></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""Request_account"_Link"><span id=".22Request_account.22_Link"></span>"Request account" Link</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:ConfirmAccount&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: "Request account" Link"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>If you would like to add a "Request account" login link, the latest version of the extension already adds it for you. However, if that doesn't work, you will need to update to the latest version of your branch of ConfirmAccount from Git. For instance, if you are using MediaWiki 1.35, you should stay on the REL1_35 branch but pull from Git to retrieve the latest changes. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Known_issues">Known issues</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:ConfirmAccount&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Known issues"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>If <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-php mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="nv">$wgEmailConfirmToEdit</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">true</span><span class="p">;</span></code> is set users will need to confirm their email twice before being able to edit. See <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182337" class="extiw" title="phabricator:T182337">T182337</a> for further information.</li> <li>Do not set/create <b>MediaWiki:Requestaccount-areas/xx</b> where xx is a language code, the first part of each line is used as the keys to store in the DB for the items account requesters check.</li> <li>Older versions of MediaWiki may not show the link to <b>Special:RequestAccount</b> at the user login form. You can edit <b>MediaWiki:loginprompt</b> to remedy this.</li> <li>If your email client loses its mail data before sending it out, users will not get their passwords but may have an account. Since no one knows the passwords, you may want to use <a href="/wiki/Special:ChangePassword" title="Special:ChangePassword">Special:ResetPassword</a> to send them new ones.</li> <li>If only a few people view the confirm accounts page, the randomly triggered pruning of old requests will not trigger often, so old rejected requests may persist. This prevents email addresses from re-requesting accounts for an unknown time period. You can override this behavior, and allow immediate re-requests, by forcing prune right before any new Request is submitted. <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:ConfirmAccount#Pruning_Frequency" title="Special:MyLanguage/Extension:ConfirmAccount">Instructions here.</a></li></ul> <ul><li>Extension is not working anymore with mediawiki 1.43; see <a href="/wiki/Topic:Y4bapro9kaawghq5" title="Topic:Y4bapro9kaawghq5">here</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:ConfirmAccount/Integration_with_LDAP_Authentication_extension" title="Special:MyLanguage/Extension:ConfirmAccount/Integration with LDAP Authentication extension">Integration with <b>LDAP Authentication</b> extension</a></li> <li>[solved] Captcha: before version 1.39, the captcha was not validated (see <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168783" class="extiw" title="phabricator:T168783">T168783</a>), there was only a specific patch for hCaptcha (see <a href="/wiki/Topic:W449yd63slfossl2#flow-post-w457lxnfmrb51gct" title="Topic:W449yd63slfossl2">Topic:W449yd63slfossl2#flow-post-w457lxnfmrb51gct</a>).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Troubleshooting">Troubleshooting</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:ConfirmAccount&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Troubleshooting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>Notification emails do not get sent</dt></dl> <p>If you are testing, note that a user must first confirm their email address through the link emailed to them, and then the email will be sent to the bureaucrat to confirm the account. </p><p>Make sure that setting(s) related to extension are introduced <b>after</b> the <code>require_once</code> line. Not before, otherwise extension doesn't see these settings and they fail silently. e.g. </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-php mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="nx">wfLoadExtension</span><span class="p">(</span> <span class="s1">'ConfirmAccount'</span> <span class="p">);</span> <span class="nv">$wgConfirmAccountContact</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">"admin@example.com"</span><span class="p">;</span> </pre></div> <p>Also note that when using the <code>confirmaccount-notify</code> setting, that each user in the group (e.g. sysop) will not receive notices unless their Email options in Special:Preferences allow "Allow other users to email me" and that they have confirmed their email address within the same form. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:ConfirmAccount&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:InviteSignup" title="Special:MyLanguage/Extension:InviteSignup">Extension:InviteSignup</a>, for administrator-initiated (mass) account creation</li> <li>TwnMainPage extension, offering a <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Translation_UX/Specification#Sign-up_features" title="Special:MyLanguage/Translation UX/Specification">"sandbox" where user can create an unprivileged account, propose some edits and ask approval</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Semantic_Signup" title="Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Semantic Signup">Extension:Semantic Signup</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Signup" title="Extension:Semantic Signup"> </a></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:AcceptTermsOfUse" 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