It's been used on and off as required for the past few years. On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 18:55, RhinosF1 Wikipedia <rhino...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Do we know when it was implemented and why? Is it part of the response to > earlier security issues? > > On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 09:51, K. Peachey <p858sn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> It's a anti-spam measure, One of the Phab administrators will approve >> when available. >> >> On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 18:28, RhinosF1 Wikipedia <rhino...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Hi all, >> > Is there any reason Phabricator accounts would be marked not approved? >> > I've not noticed this happening before but there's been a report on IRC >> > (see >> > https://wm-bot.wmflabs.org/logs/%23wikimedia-tech/20190404.txt) by >> > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Dusti/ saying they are getting the >> > error: 'Your account has been created, but needs to be approved by an >> > administrator. You'll receive an email once your account is approved.' (see >> > https://snag.gy/InXbLz.jpg) >> > >> > >> > Can someone approve and clarify what's happened? >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikitech-l mailing list >> > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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