Question

After setting

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read']    = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit']    = false; 
$wgEmailConfirmToEdit = true;

anonymous users can’t edit any page because each time they are asked to confirm their E-mail address.
I want to add one more condition that only administrator can confirm new users. How to do this ?

Answer 1

Anonymous users can’t edit pages using the setup you describe because you have specifically disabled their editing permissions by setting: $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false; .

It sounds like what you want to do is create a new group with editing permissions and then have administrators add users to that group when they have confirmed the user instead of using email confirmation. So for example:

$wgEmailConfirmToEdit = false;

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read']    = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit']    = false; 
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['edit']    = false;

$wgGroupPermissions['confirmeduser']['edit']    = true;

Then an administrator can add users to the confirmeduser group to give them editing permissions.