Extension:EditAccount

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	37 (Ranked 102nd)
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The EditAccount extension has two main purposes. One is to change another user's password, real name, or email address. The second is to disable another user's account.

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, access to their account can be prevented. 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 "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

• Download and move the extracted EditAccount folder to your extensions/ directory.
  Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/EditAccount
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  wfLoadExtension( 'EditAccount' );
  

• Configure user group and user right at your convenience.
•  Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Configuration

By default, all user groups will only have permission to close their 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. If needed, this log can be set to private.

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

• DisableAccount - Allows administrators to disable individual accounts.
• UserMerge - Allows merging and deleting user accounts.
• UserManager - Allows to administrate users.
• Sudo - Allows logging into other user's accounts.
• PassEdit - Another extension doing basically the same thing.