Thread:Project:Support desk/Any way to make a MediaWiki-wiki COPPA co-operative?

The 'Children's Online Privacy Protectio Act', to be exact.

Pretty much: I need to be able to ask users for their age upon sign-up. If the user is below 13, then they may not edit any pages or submit any material on the wiki until the day of their 13th birthday. If they're above 13, they may submit content and edit pages. That's it. I know fully how to disable the portions that ask for the user's name & email; I'll be sure to both in the terms and within the sign-up page that if a user is below the age of 13, they must use their parent's email to both sign up and confirm their accounts.

You may wonder what the purpose of this would be exactly - Mediawiki serves as the "basis" for the site's userbase. Apart from the wiki, users will be able to engage in other Online activities that are non-wiki related and do not require the user to submit information, and thus their age will not matter when performing these activities. This is possible to the fact that Mediawiki presents such an open-ended user system.

However, the other "activities" are not yet open, so for now we'd like for everything to be COPPA co-operative for the future when these other portions of the site do open.

Does that make sense?

I'm surprised Mediawiki does not come with a COPPA function to start with.

What I'd like to know - Is there any extension that requires a user to enter their age, and, based upon that, requires a staff member the verify their account OR places the user into a specific usergroup? It's a kind of confusing case, so I'll answer further questions if any.

My basic need: An extension that asks for a user's age, and allows the staff to review the account and place it into a usergroup/allows the system to automatically place them into a group.