Enable MediaWiki by editing the following file and remove the '' from the third line so that it reads 'Alias. See Preventing Access page in the MediaWiki manual. MediaWiki is the engine that is used for Wikipedia. I suppose if you wanted to revive the user later on you would need to repeat this process but this time you would merge OriginalUserName (deactivated) into OriginalUserName. with username "OriginalUserName (deactivated)" and then merge "OriginalUserName" into the former, or even use Renameuser extension. Select the desired rights listed under Available groups and click on Save. Enter the username which you wish to modify and click on Edit User Groups. Then, under Restricted special pages, click User rights management. If you want to preserve history readability (i.e., to have edits from the user to be still shown under his name), you can create a new account e.g. The privileges for existing users can be modified by logging in to your MediaWiki as administrator and going to Special Pages. However, using User Merge and Delete extension you can merge the account in another one and delete the former the original account will then "disappear". on a simple private wiki, it's not possible to simply delete the account (unless no edits have been made) you can block it, but the user will still be able to read pages. If you want to completely remove access to a user, e.g. This solutions requires an extension that works with MediaWiki 1.29+ Message dorigine- De : mediawiki-l-bounces at mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at mediawiki-l-bounces at mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at On Behalf Of.
Now upon logging in the user will be greeted with Login error. And what about an email verification An account is marked to be deleted if not verfied by email after 24h (needs a bot to do that) :) E.Then in LocalSettings.php add $wgBlockDisablesLogin=true ( $wgBlockDisablesLogin).
In general, any site that uses MediaWiki as its core software engine is considered a wiki. Originally created for Wikipedia, MediaWiki is an open-source PHP -based wiki engine now used to run thousands of sites.
This solutions is available out of the box for MediaWiki 1.16+