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Create a pre-configured Mediawiki for offline Wikipedia contribution teaching
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Add solution to reset password for admins #15

Open kelson42 opened 6 years ago

kelson42 commented 6 years ago

In the online MediaWiki sphere… lost password are recovered by email. No such thing can work here. However, the issue was reported by many teachers (whose students lost their password and teachers were unhappy to have no way to either recover it, or force it reset).

kelson42 commented 6 years ago

Might be doable with https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Resetting_passwords/fr#Use_Special:PasswordReset

florentk commented 6 years ago

It seem that the best solution is execute changePassword.php maintenance script, I can see how use it that the more simply possible for an admin with a running Docker container and documented that

kelson42 commented 6 years ago

@florentk Probably not what we need. The ticket means a Mediawiki admin - so through the Mediawiki web ui itself. Does https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Resetting_passwords/fr#Use_Special:PasswordReset not work?

kelson42 commented 6 years ago

@anthere This sounds complicated to achieve as there is basically no Mediawiki extension or similar solution provided to do so :( We would need a special development.