Add hook to ConfirmAccount to filter out requests
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	MarkAHershberger
	Nov 7 2024, 6:51 PM

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We recently upgraded our wiki and it is being spammed now with account requests that include a URL. We'd like to filter out those requests.

A hook should handle this easily.

Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Add hook to ConfirmAccount to filter out requests	mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmAccount	master	+133 -30

Mentioned In: T402580: Fix "Creation of dynamic property ConfirmAccountsPager::$xxx is deprecated" issue
Mentioned Here: T57734: Word count for field "Biography" ignores non-latin
T277628: regex for auto-accept and auto-reject email addresses

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Proposed hook would be ConfirmAccount::checkRequest, would run before inserting the request into the submission queue, and would only be passed the AccountRequestSubmission object.

Related: T277628
maybe: T57734

Change #1099052 had a related patch set uploaded (by MarkAHershberger; author: MarkAHershberger):

[mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmAccount@master] Add hook to ConfirmAccount to filter out requests

Change #1099052 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmAccount@master] Add hook to ConfirmAccount to filter out requests

Patch got merged back in January, so I think this is now fixed.