Extension talk:ConfirmAccount/LQT Archive 1


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Using template on "bio" section"?
Hi! First of all: This extension is great! But I have a little problem. I´m trying to use an existing wiki template on the "bio" section. Is this posible? The goal is that the information that the new users inputs on the bio (and, the template), they can get their "users profiles" almost ready. Thanks!!! --Tango granada 01:04, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Bureaucrat's do not have permission to confirm an account.
permission error when trying to confirm an account with User bureaucrat. I see the file "SpecialConfirmAccount.php", and this have a line of cod to configure the group bureaucrats. In file: $wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['confirmaccount'] = true;
 * 1) Grant account queue rights

The account then I try confirm is the admin of wiki. They have bureaucrats group add. So, i have sothing to more?

Email sent with password contains line I would like to remove
The email sent out with username and password contains the line "Welcome to the forums. Thank you for your interest in joining our forum." by default. How do I remove this? I've tried looking at MediaWiki:confirmaccount-email-body (2,3,4,5,6) but that line doesn't appear to be present and I would like to remove it. --90.192.146.115 13:06, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Installing reCAPTCHA with ConfirmAccount
Just a little public service for those trying to do what I've done:
 * 1) Create a private wiki using these guidelines: Manual:Preventing_access
 * 2) Use Extension:ConfirmAccount to set up an account request queue
 * 3) Use Extension:reCAPTCHA to keep the bots from filling up my account request queue

First off, after adding Extension:ConfirmAccount and Extension:reCAPTCHA to my installation, I went to test. Starting at my Main_Page, I clicked log in, then clicked the Create an account link to request an account. But it took me right back to Main_Page. Clearly, not the desired effect. After cursing a little and pondering the meaning of life, I recalled that when I worked on LocalSettings.php to restrict viewing, editing and account creation, those configuration flags included $wgWhitelistRead (see Manual:Preventing_access). Naturally, "Special:UserLogin&type=signup" (usually called "Special:RequestAccount" on standard MediaWiki installs) wasn't in the list. Duh. Added that in to LocalSettings.php, FTP'd it over to the server and voilà! Fixed. Sort of.

After figuring out how to let an anonymous user get to the account request page, I moved on to a more serious issue. I was getting an error on the screen that pointed to Extension:ConfirmEdit as the culprit. The errors looked pretty much like this:
 * Extension_talk:ConfirmAccount

While Extension:reCAPTCHA was installed (but not working), Extension:ConfirmEdit wasn't. The Extension:ConfirmAccount and Extension:reCAPTCHA gurus know this (of course, I didn't), but Extension:reCAPTCHA is really a combination of some .php files from the reCAPTCHA people at Carnegie Mellon University and some other .php files for Extension:ConfirmEdit. You can either run Extension:ConfirmEdit (with it's very basic text CAPTCHA implementation) or the more sophisticated Extension:reCAPTCHA (with graphical CAPTCHAs), but not both.

After much trial n' error, Googling and a piecing together comments HERE, HERE and HERE, I figured out that I needed to use the ConfirmEdit.php file from Extension:ConfirmEdit instead of the file with the same name supplied with the reCAPTCHA download. I also needed to add the ConfirmEdit_body.php file from Extension:ConfirmEdit as this file is not in the Extension:reCAPTCHA package.

I re-downloaded both Extensions just to make sure I had clean, un-edited .php files (I had been experimenting with several files as I did my trial n' error), then replaced the ConfirmEdit.php and ConfirmEdit_body.php files in the Extension:reCAPTCHA package with those from the Extension:ConfirmEdit package. I deleted the /your_wiki's_root/extensions/recaptcha directory on the server, FTP'd over a new /recaptcha directory with the correct files and everything came up as desired.

Hope this helps someone else down the road.