Extension talk:ConfirmAccount/archive 1

ConfirmAccount extension requires $wgEnableEmail set to true
Hi, I'm getting the errormessage above, although in LocalSettings.php the value is set to true... did I miss a step? -Dholzmann 17:42, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Disable the email sending
Hi, I'm using this extension to create a login system that requires the users to have the account checked, but I don't want to use the email part of it. Is there a way of taking that section only out of it? -CustomJ 14:37, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
 * No. Aaron 09:09, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Send account request to Administrator
After a new user confirmed the e-mail of his account request, the administrator receive an e-mail notification about this pending request with a direct link to Special:ConfirmAccounts. Tested in English and German.

Patch function in extensions/ConfirmAccount/ConfirmAccount_body.php
function confirmEmailToken( $code ) { global $wgUser, $wgOut; # Confirm if this token is in the pending requests $name = $this->requestFromEmailToken( $code ); if( $name !== false ) { # Send mail to admin after e-mail has been confirmed global $wgEmergencyContact; $u = User::newFromName( $name, 'creatable' ); $u->setEmail( $wgEmergencyContact ); $title = Title::makeTitle( NS_SPECIAL, 'ConfirmAccounts' ); $url = $title->getFullUrl; $u->sendMail (wfMsg('requestaccount-email-subj-admin'),                               wfMsg('requestaccount-email-body-admin', $name, $url)); $this->confirmEmail( $name ); $wgOut->addWikiText( wfMsgHtml( 'request-account-econf' )); $wgOut->returnToMain; return; }               # Maybe the user confirmed after account was created... $user = User::newFromConfirmationCode( $code ); if( is_object( $user ) ) { if( $user->confirmEmail ) { $message = $wgUser->isLoggedIn ? 'confirmemail_loggedin' : 'confirmemail_success'; $wgOut->addWikiText( wfMsg( $message ) ); if( !$wgUser->isLoggedIn ) { $title = SpecialPage::getTitleFor( 'Userlogin' ); $wgOut->returnToMain( true, $title->getPrefixedText ); }                       } else { $wgOut->addWikiText( wfMsg( 'confirmemail_error' ) ); }               } else { $wgOut->addWikiText( wfMsg( 'confirmemail_invalid' ) ); }       }

Translation file
Get the translation file from rrosenfeld at http://www.spinnaker.de/tmp/ConfirmAccount.i18n.php.txt and extend the english and german section:

English section: 'requestaccount-email-subj-admin' => ' Request account', 'requestaccount-email-body-admin' => 'The account "$1" has request an account and is waiting for confirmation. The e-mail address has been confirmed. You can confirm the request here "$2".',

German section: 'requestaccount-email-subj-admin' => ' Antrag auf Account', 'requestaccount-email-body-admin' => 'Das Benutzerkonto "$1" hat einen Antrag auf einen Account gestellt. Die Emailadresse wurde bereits bestätigt. Du kannst den Antrag unter "$2" freischalten.',

regards --schweny 22:50, 13 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I've added similar functionality now. Aaron 09:28, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Feature requests from the Citizendium
First, well done on the "currently being viewed by" feature!

All, I am so glad to see that there are people helping Aaron with this extensionm, which is very useful and important to us. We do have a few feature requests, however. CZ would like to have the option to allow account approvers to do the following:
 * 1) Edit biographies.  (This allows us to remove information about hometowns, age, and school from people under 16 years old, without having to change it and then "oversight" the result.)
 * 2) Allow sysops, or perhaps a higher-level user, to save and view the info entered in "Identity confirmation."  And also CVs (especially--people often apply later for editorship and say, "but I already gave you my CV"--"sorry, but I can't access it anymore").  Currently this is either deleted or not visible, anyway.  Sometimes, we need to see the info in order to decide how to handle a specific problematic user--we sometimes want to doublecheck someone's identity when considering whether to boot them from the project. In general, we (rarely) need to see the info after an account has been approved.  That info might be added to the user's "block user" (Special:Blockip) page, which we use to locate the person's e-mail address, or else put it all in a new special page...obviously, the possible existence of such a "confidential info" page is one thing that would greatly distinguish CZ from WP.
 * 3) When request approvers use the "hold" and "reject" options, no one else can see the comments entered there.  That's crucial information for mutual oversight and collaboration.  We really need to be able to see that info in the reject and hold queues.
 * 4) Under "Signature" (bottom of the page) we'd like to have actually three separate checkboxes.

We won't be opposed if you want to make these off by default, since they are important mainly for CZ's policies. But we do need these things.

There's another big feature request that we badly need. There are multiple roles in our system: author and editor. Not only would we like a checkbox that someone can check if they're interested in becoming an editor...we'd actually like to go further and create three new queues: new editor applications, editor applications on hold, and rejected editor applications. Note that we'd have to be able to have all the relevant info after an author account had been approved. If anyone is interested in doing this, e-mail me at sanger [at] citizendium.org and I'll send you more detailed requirements.

I'd like to know who is using this extension, just out of curiosity. --Larry Sanger 18:13, 28 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Looks like it is all doable. I was opposed to biography editing, but if a credentials table is added, then it can store the original, so that way we can be sure what they really sent. Aaron 23:32, 28 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Actually, I don't see the point of #4 since even two looked cluttered. Still working on the rest though. Aaron 02:00, 29 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Glad to hear it's doable! Do let me know when you're ready to do the editor system; there are several nonobvious requirements.


 * As to #4, well, we'd just like to make sure people read and understand that there are three things they're agreeing to. This is a lot more important than an uncluttered look.  Besides, for other websites, just one checkbox (or none) could be the default setting. --Larry Sanger 03:19, 29 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Should this credential page be update-able or should it stay as it was during the time of account approval? People can always post their their info and post/link to/upload their resume afterwards and have it on some subpage, and the original "identity" info is fairly private; so I guess this special page would be static then? Aaron 04:48, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I'll just make the schema able to have revisions. Aaron 23:32, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Possible bug with picking new usernames
I ran into problems when overriding the user's choice of a username. In the acceptance form I chose a different login name for this user that did not start with an uppercase letter. This username (all lowercase) was then inserted in the mysql database. Since mediawiki seems to convert the first letter of every loginname to uppercase, the user was not able to log in afterwards. All went fine when I changed the first letter of the login-name to uppercase within the mysql database.

In summary I think the acceptance form lacks an automatic conversion to uppercase for the first letter of the login name. I am not using the actual version of ConfirmAccount but a version prior to the 26.10.200; I apologize if this has already been corrected but this is a production system and at the moment I don't have time to fiddle with new versions.

Anyway, thanks for your work on this Aaron! Except of this minor bug it's working like a charm here. --Arnd 10:38, 8 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Fixed. Aaron 00:12, 9 January 2008 (UTC)