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_…
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(a)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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
For increasing security.
Deny fetching my wiki through api by bots
Or, probably, I want something absurd ?
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