________________________________ From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Emufarmers Sangly Sent: Tue 10/07/2007 03:19 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] proper update procedure On 7/9/07, Hiram Clawson &lt;hiram(a)soe.ucsc.edu&gt; wrote: I just set the wiki to read-only (with Special:Lockdb) and run the update. I don't know if it would actually mess anything up if I didn't set it to read-only, but I figure better safe than sorry. -- Arr, ye emus, http://emufarmers.com ====== When I use Special:Lockdb I get a pemission error: Permission error <http://mike2.openmethodology.org/index.php/Special:Lockdb#searchInput> You are not allowed to execute the action you have requested. So what I have doing is setting the following variable in LocalSettings.php $wgReadOnly = "The wiki software is currently being updated bla bla bla."; The message is displayed on the edit page where all edit functionality is disabled. You can use HTML tags within the quotes to improve the visibility of the message (e.g. <b>The wiki ....</b>). -Andi _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l *************************************************************************************************** The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. Access to this email by anyone other than the intended addressee is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, any review, disclosure, copying, distribution, retention, or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please reply to or forward a copy of this message to the sender and delete the message, any attachments, and any copies thereof from your system. ***************************************************************************************************

________________________________ From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Rob Church Sent: Wed 11/07/2007 08:45 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] proper update procedure On 11/07/07, Rindler, Andreas &lt;andreas.rindler(a)bearingpoint.com&gt; wrote: It's confined to users with the "siteadmin" right, which is no longer given to anyone by default. Setting $wgReadOnly directly is faster and more convenient, most of the time. Rob Church ======== Is Sysops the same as siteadmin? Because I am a member of the Sysops group. And I can't see a siteadmin group (MW 1.10.0). -Andi *************************************************************************************************** The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. Access to this email by anyone other than the intended addressee is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, any review, disclosure, copying, distribution, retention, or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please reply to or forward a copy of this message to the sender and delete the message, any attachments, and any copies thereof from your system. ***************************************************************************************************

On 7/11/07, Rob Church &lt;robchur(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: You'd set it with something like this in LocalSettings.php: $wgGroupPermissions['siteadmin]['siteadmin'] = true; Then you would assign it as with any other right at Special:Userrights. There probably isn't any good reason to use that instead of setting $wgReadOnly, but I find it more convenient (and vaguely satisfying).

On 11/07/07, Hiram Clawson &lt;hiram(a)soe.ucsc.edu&gt; wrote: It will theoretically stop MediaWiki performing any writes to the database. While this is probably pretty safe, if you want to completely halt operations, then you need to temporarily revoke the MySQL user's permissions. No. Rob Church