[Wikipedia-l] Editing only by registered users

Fri Oct 1 22:39:16 UTC 2004

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Jens Ropers <ropers at ropersonline.com>
> Date: 1 October 2004 06:12:00 GMT+02:00
> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l at wikimedia.org>, randy at lemnar.com
> Cc: Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: Approved Edits Only
> Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l at wikimedia.org>
>
> 1. This should solve your problem:
>   http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Preventing_Access
>   Simply prevent anonymous editing and prevent new registrations 
> (otherwise any Internet surfer could just register themselves). Then 
> appoint a person (or a number of persons) who will be responsible for 
> manually creating accounts for anybody who you want to be able to 
> edit. All of these measures are described on the meta page as per the 
> above link.
>
> <snip>

On 1 Oct 2004, at 18:14, Stephen Brandwood wrote:

> I was suprised not to see anything about this on the Meta Wiki, as it 
> seems like a common practice to use on some Wikis. I am in a situation 
> where i have a small Wiki and am the only Sysop. I really don't want 
> to have to be checking every edit just in case it's vandalism. So far 
> they have all been by unregistered users and whilst they may not have 
> been destructive, they are generally annoying. Is there anyway i can 
> only let registered users edit pages? I'm not so much bothered about 
> people adding new pages, as they still need to be added to a menu 
> somewhere to be really useful.
>
> Thanks for any help
> -Steve
>
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