MailishUsername is a MediaWiki extension for login identification by email address. It provides an email address field instead of a username field in account creation and login pages. The actual identifier for the account is a modified form of the email address called a "mailish username". For example:
Email address Mailish username
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smith@acme.com Smith-AcmeCom
Smith@acme.com Smith AcmeCom
joe@gmail.com Joe-GmailCom
mike@zelea.com Mike-ZeleaCom
ThomasvonderElbe@gmx.de ThomasvonderElbe GmxDe
For details on the form of mailish usernames, see votorola.a.voter.IDPair.appendUsername().
This particular release was tested against MediaWiki 1.21.1. If you are running an older version, then look through the previous tagged releases. You might find an exact match.
Otherwise you may need to re-create the files MailishUsercreate.php and MailishUserlogin.php. They are modified copies of the
original includes/templates/Usercreate.php and Userlogin.php
files. Copy them from your own version of MediaWiki and apply the same or equivalent
modifications. Usually that will suffice. Then install and test as described below.
Copy this subdirectory to the extensions directory of your
MediaWiki installation. That will give you a new directory named
extensions/MailishUsername with all the same files.
Add the following to your LocalSettings.php configuration file:
require_once( "$IP/extensions/MailishUsername/Extension.php" );
Transfer the modifications marked 'Mailish' from this modified file to your own installed copy of SpecialUserlogin.php.
Test by creating a new user account in the wiki, then logging out and back in, according to the usage instructions below.
When creating an account or logging into the wiki, enter your email address in the field provided. The username field no longer appears on the account creation and login forms.
To bypass this facility, enter a username appended by '@wiki' in the email address field. This allows you to create an account or to login under an ordinary, non-mailish username. For example, the username WikiSysop is entered as:
E-mail: WikiSysop@wiki
All accounts created by this bypass technique will have their email addresses initialized to the value of $wgPasswordSender.
Property minder is added to the inprop request of
the core query module.
inprop: Which properties to get
An example request is:
http://reluk.ca/mediawiki/api.php?action=query&prop=info&inprop=minder&titles=User:Pipe%2B1138-ZeleaCom&format=xmlfm
When requested, each page item in the response includes a
minder item, which normally specifies the username of the minder as
resolved from the root page and the preferences of the page user. For example:
<page pageid='1028' ns='2' title='User:Pipe+1138-ZeleaCom/subpage' ... >
<minder username='Mike-ZeleaCom'/>
</page>
But if no minder can be resolved, then a 'fail' message explains the reason:
<page pageid='1028' ns='2' title='User:Pipe+1138-ZeleaCom/subpage' ... >
<minder fail='Unable to resolve minder for wiki page User:Pipe+1138-ZeleaCom: Page sets no Minder property'/>
</page>
Copyright 2010-2013, Michael Allan.
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