From MozillaZine Knowledge Base
Users used to be able to fill in a online form to create a knowledge base account. Thats been temporarily disabled to avoid spam. It should be enabled shortly after we move to the new web site. In the interim anybody can request a knowledge base account in the Moderation / Spam / Registration / Login Activation Requests thread in the mozillaZine site discussion forum. They do not need to justify why they need an account, its available for the asking. SysOps (all of the mozillaZine forum moderators are also SysOps) can create an account as follows:
- Login to the knowledge base using your account if you aren't already logged in.
- Fill in all of the fields. It will default to your username, make certain you replace it with the requested username. If they don't suggest one use their forum username (omitting spaces if it has them). You can get the user's email address from their forum profile if you're a moderator. Its useful because that lets them get a new password if they lose it or you make a mistake. Don't check the "remember me" checkbox. Press the "Create account" button.
- Send them a private message with something like:
- I created a knowledge base account for user TBD with password changeyourpassword . You can change your password using the "Preferences" link after you login. I registered your email address with the account so that you can have it email you a new password if necessary. Please take a quick look at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Rules_and_guidelines
- Logout of the knowledge base (you're logged in using the new account).
- Repeat as needed for the next user.
Users can also request an account by sending a email message to mozillaZineKB AT gmail DOT com though we encourage them to ask for it in the mozillaZine site discussion forum. Its a IMAP account. Add a [Gmail/Done] label to the message after you reply to it. If they ask for help with a Mozilla application, please steer them to the appropriate mozillaZine forum rather than answering their question. The shared email account is only for knowledge base account requests.
The reason for the confusing text at Special:Userlogin is because we can only change part of it, by editing MediaWiki:Loginprompt .
