Enabling Extension:ConfirmAccount

Hi all, I just tried to create an account for the oVirt wiki and was kind of surprised that to do so I had to contact someone who already had an account. It seems like everyone who has an account can add new users, so it looks like this is basically a spam avoidance policy. Is that right? If that's the case, I'd like to suggest enabling the ConfirmAccount extension http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount - which can be configured to ask users for a username & email address, and their bio/reasons for wanting to have an account. The request is then added to a moderation queue, and anyone who is in the Bureaucrat role can approve the account creation request. To the user, this fits within the expected intimacy gradient. I plan on blogging about the intimacy gradient which I talked about in my Ignite talk at teh Red Hat Summit last week, I'll point people there then - the basic idea is that you should not require people to have private communications to get access to a semi-public resource like a wiki account. In this case, you're making the request via a web page, and although the end result is the same (a human checks if you're a human), to the user it provides the same level of indirection as a Mailman subscription page. What do you think? Seems like something we could do easily. Thanks, Dave. -- Dave Neary Community Action and Impact Open Source and Standards Team, Red Hat Phone: +33 9 50 71 55 62