how to require 'confirm by email' to create an account in mediawiki

Question

I have a site built on mediawiki. How do I ensure that to create a new account the user must first confirm his email by clicking a link sent to his email address?

Answer 1

There is no built-in way to do that that I know of although you can get pretty close. The $wgEmailConfirmToEdit variable let's you prevent people from editing unless they have confirmed their email address. Just set:

$wgEmailConfirmToEdit = true;

in your LocalSettings.php