Manual:$wgEmailConfirmToEdit

User rights, access control and monitoring: $wgEmailConfirmToEdit
Require users to confirm email address before they can edit, true to enable.
Introduced in version:1.6.0 (r12991)
Removed in version:still in use
Allowed values:(boolean)
Default value:false

Details edit

Require users to confirm their email address before they can edit, true to enable. Also, as of MediaWiki 1.12, requires people to supply an email address when registering.

  • As a result, this disables anonymous editing from IP addresses, since unregistered users cannot have confirmed email addresses.
  • This configuration parameter is ignored if $wgEmailAuthentication ​ is false.

See also edit