Difference between revisions of "Help:Create global Wiki user account"

Revision as of 20:22, 1 March 2020

To create a global user account the Wikis work with extension: ConfirmAccount and users can request an account for themselves and this requires someone to confirm the account or reject it.

What does it do?

1. first a user request an account
2. someone has to confirm the account or reject it, usually the Wiki group of Bureaucrats or Admins. You’ll see this as a notification in the Wiki’s Recent Changes page
   • If you accept it,
     * better change the Wikis user interface to that language of the Wiki, because after creation a default greeting text gets inserted (including the new users biography notes) onto the new user’s user page
     * alter the user name to a real name when possible
   • If you reject it—and to prevent spamming—set (1) the IP first better to not be able to request anew and (2) set this request to be [x] Spam

If there will be to much spam the only solution (at this moment) is to deactivate this extension an to manage users completely manually by the Wiki group of Bureaucrats and Admins (see below).

Wikis without extension: ConfirmAccount

Create an account manually via «Special:CreateAccount»

For reasons of spamming Wikis via user requests, some of them are deactivated. In this case you, as a maintainer or administrator of the Wiki, should take care of it yourself:

1. Go to «Special:CreateAccount» and create the user name accordingly
   • please use readable (real) names
   • fill out all the fields including a reason
   • note that if the e-mail was wrong nobody gets notified
2. Hopefully the new user gets notified if his e-mail is correct and he can proceed from there

Have also a help page ready to document how to contact your or your Wiki community. Under Special:Log you can also read and see the user logs from your Wiki.