Thread:Project:Support desk/Username as emailadress/reply


 * You should upgrade, yes. 1.14 is not supported.
 * Your users are probably already logged into an intranet account, right? You could use that account to automatically create their MediaWiki users.  I've done this with LDAP users and a custom extension.
 * You should avoid messing around with the database directly. While it may not cause problems for you right now, it isn't a safe way to work.
 * If you know who your users are, then you might look at API:Account creation to pre-create the accounts. But this will require upgrading to 1.21.
 * Look at Manual:$wgEmailConfirmToEdit which requires a user to specify an email address to create an account.