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action=createaccount
(main | createaccount)
- Voor deze module zijn schrijfrechten nodig.
- This module only accepts POST requests.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Create a new user account.
Parameters:
- name
Gebruikersnaam.
- This parameter is required.
- Type: user name
- password
Password (ignored if mailpassword is set).
- domain
Domain for external authentication (optional).
- token
Account creation token obtained in first request.
Email address of user (optional).
- realname
Real name of user (optional).
- mailpassword
If set to any value, a random password will be emailed to the user.
- Type: boolean (details)
- reason
Optional reason for creating the account to be put in the logs.
- language
Language code to set as default for the user (optional, defaults to content language).
Examples:
- Create user testuser with password test123.
- api.php?action=createaccount&name=testuser&password=test123
- Create user testmailuser and email a randomly-generated password.
- api.php?action=createaccount&name=testmailuser&mailpassword=true&reason=MyReason