You could restrict group access to the write API, which has more destructive potential than simple queries:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Restricting_API_usage#Restricting_access_t...
I agree with the others that there's no benefit to restricting access to the read API.
Jim
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 5:49 AM, C Stafford c.stafford@gmail.com wrote:
Lots of bot frameworks can still read the contents from the html. Just blocking their reading through the api is very useless.
You could turn off the api entirely. Thats about the only way to stop it from being used.
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 5:45 AM, Андрій Гончар gonandriy@gmail.com wrote:
For increasing security. Deny fetching my wiki through api by bots Or, probably, I want something absurd ? _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
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