Extension:EditAccount/de-formal

This extension is professionally maintained by the WikiTeq team.

WikiTeq provides official support for MediaWiki LTS releases only. It may work with other MediaWiki releases.

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EditAccount Release status: stable
Implementation	Special page
Description	Allows editing account details, or disabling an account
Author(s)	Łukasz Garczewski, Jack Phoenix
Maintainer(s)	WikiTeq team
Latest version	1.3.4 (2022-12-13)
Compatibility policy	For every MediaWiki release that is a Long Term Support release there is a corresponding branch in the extension.
MediaWiki	1.35-1.39
License	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
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Quarterly downloads	66 (Ranked 114th)
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The EditAccount extension has two main purposes. One is to change the password, real name, or email address of another user. The second is to disable the account of another user.

The special page may be limited to a certain user group such as staff or bureaucrats.

Effects

Changing the password

Changing the password will automatically log out the user. Since the password is changed, it can prevent access to their account. This can be an alternative to disabling the user's account.

Disabling an account

Similar to the above, the user will be logged out immediately. Alongside that, the following will take effect:

• The user's password will be scrambled, preventing them from logging in.
• The user's email address will be removed, and the email authentication status will be also set to "not authenticated".
• The user's real name will be set to "Account Disabled".

Note that the registration date and other preferences info will not be affected.

When viewing the contributions of a disabled user account, a note appears stating "This account has been disabled." (View example).

All account edits are automatically logged.

Installation

• Die Erweiterung herunterladen und die Datei(en) in ein Verzeichnis namens EditAccount im Ordner extensions/ ablegen.
• Folgenden Code am Ende Ihrer LocalSettings.php hinzufügen:

  wfLoadExtension( 'EditAccount' );
  

• Configure user group and user right at your convenience.
•  Done – Zu Special:Version in dem Wiki (bei Einstellung auf deutsch nach Spezial:Version) navigieren, um die erfolgreiche Installierung der Erweiterung zu überprüfen.

Für Benutzer, die MediaWiki in der Version 1.28 und früher betreiben:

Die oben stehenden Anweisungen beschreiben die neue Installationsanweisung für diese Erweiterung unter der Verwendung von wfLoadExtension(). Wird diese Erweiterung in einer dieser früheren Versionen (MediaWiki 1.28 und früher)  – an Stelle von wfLoadExtension( 'EditAccount' ); – installiert, benutzen Sie:

require_once "$IP/extensions/EditAccount/EditAccount.php";

Configuration

By default, all user groups will only have permission to close their own accounts. The user right "editaccount" will have to be set for an existing user group, e.g. "bureaucrat" or for a new user group to allow editing or closing all accounts:

$wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['editaccount'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['editaccount']['editaccount'] = true;

Logging

Use of the special pages "CloseAccount" and "EditAccount" is logged at Special:Log/editaccnt. This log can be set to private if needed.

Example log entries

* 04:41, March 18, 2011 WikiAdmin (Talk | contribs | block) disabled account User:Example user ‎ 
* 02:11, February 17, 2011 StaffMember (Talk | contribs | block) changed password for user User:Jimbo Wales

Related extensions

• Sudo - Allows logging into other user's accounts.
• DisableAccount - Allows administrators to disable individual accounts.
• UserMerge - Allows merging and deleting user accounts.