My users keep accidentally editing anonymously when they think they're logged in; this has gotten so bad that a few of them have asked me to disable anonymous edits. Instead, I wrote the patch below my sig, set $wgEnableAnonWarning to true, and put the following in MediaWiki:AnonWarning: <div class="usermessage">You are currently editing anonymously. Would you like to <a href="$1">log in</a> before editing?</div> It was quite effective. ;^) Below patch is against MediaWiki 1.3.11 (the latest version marked stable in Gentoo Linux's Portage). I'm not much of a PHP guy, so it's likely suboptimal, but it might be useful. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon &lt;brent(a)brentdax.com&gt; Perl and Parrot hacker "I used to have a life, but I liked mail-reading so much better." --- EditPage.php.orig 2005-04-25 21:44:51.000000000 -0700 +++ EditPage.php 2005-04-25 23:21:08.000000000 -0700 @@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ global $wgLang, $wgParser, $wgTitle; global $wgAllowAnonymousMinor; global $wgWhitelistEdit; + global $wgEnableAnonWarning; global $wgSpamRegex, $wgFilterCallback; $fname = 'EditPage::editForm'; @@ -379,6 +380,11 @@ " accesskey='".wfMsg('accesskey-minoredit')."' id='wpMinoredit' />". "<label for='wpMinoredit' title='".wfMsg('tooltip-minoredit')."'>{$minor}</label>"; } + + if( !$wgUser->getID() && $wgEnableAnonWarning) { + $sk=$wgUser->getSkin(); + $wgOut->addHTML(wfMsg("anonWarning", $sk->makeSpecialUrl('Userlogin', 'returnto=' . $wgTitle->getPrefixedUrl() ))); + } $watchhtml = "";