Beside the mentioned criteria, is email verification required in order to become autoconfirmed?
Manual talk:Autoconfirmed users
Very late, but no, not by default. You could add it, however. See Manual:$wgAutopromote.
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Beside the mentioned criteria, is email verification required in order to become autoconfirmed?
Very late, but no, not by default. You could add it, however. See Manual:$wgAutopromote.