Re: [Mediawiki-l] v1.10.1 - Namespace Protection

I thought the new version of MediaWiki provides namespace protection which is supposed to define who is able to edit a namespace. Am I just misunderstanding the purpose of this?

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgNamespaceProtection

In regards to the code below, should I be able to make a separate PHP file and call it from LocalSettings.php?

Thanks again!

----------------------------------- Jason Spirko Systems Administrator Xoran Technologies

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Platonides Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 12:30 PM To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] v1.10.1 - Namespace Protection

Jason Spirko wrote:

Hi All:

Can somebody please explain how the namespace protection works in v1.10 and how to implement it?

You need an extension to protect per namespace, thus the method used will greatly vary with the extension chosen.

I have several namespaces defined in my LocalSettings.php (see code

below).

I want to be able to create user groups for each namespace and allow only that group associated with the namespace (and sysops of course) permission to edit pages (still allow others to read).

# # Custom Namespaces #

$wgExtraNamespaces = array(100 => "CSE",101 => "CSE_talk", 102 => "IT",103 => "IT_talk", 104 => "MarCom",105 => "MarCom_talk", 106 => "OPS",107 => "OPS_talk", 108 => "Sales",109 => "Sales_talk", );

# # End Custom Namespaces #

Also, is there a way to allow a specific user group read permission

to only

the main namespace and an additional namespace (ex. only Main & Sales)?

Grant everybody else a permission to read the other namespaces.

I just need to be pointed in the right direction. I've read the meta pages and I guess I just don't understand...

Your could use a code like this:

$wgPrivateNamespaces = array(); $wgHooks['userCan'][] = 'wfCheckNamespace';

function wfCheckNamespace( $title, $user, $action, &$result) { global $wgPrivateNamespaces; if ( $action == 'read' ) { if ( in_array( $title->getNamespace(), $wgPrivateNamespacesRead ) ) { if ( !$user->isAllowed( $wgPrivateNamespacesRead[ $title->getNamespace() ] ) ) { $result = false; return false; } } } else if ( in_array( $title->getNamespace(), $wgPrivateNamespaces ) ) { if ( !$user->isAllowed( $wgPrivateNamespaces[ $title->getNamespace() ] ) ) { $result = false; return false; } } } return true; }

$wgPrivateNamespaces[100] = 'editCSE'; $wgPrivateNamespaces[101] = 'editCSE'; $wgPrivateNamespaces[102] = 'editIT'; $wgPrivateNamespaces[103] = 'editIT'; $wgPrivateNamespaces[104] = 'editMarCom'; ...

$wgGroupPermissions['CSE']['editCSE'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['IT']['editIT'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['MarCom']['editMarCom'] = true; ...

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['editCSE'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['editIT'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['editMarCom'] = true;

...

//Restrict reading of CSE, IT, MarCom and OPS (and talk) namespaces $wgPrivateNamespacesRead[100] = 'readMoreNamespaces'; $wgPrivateNamespacesRead[101] = 'readMoreNamespaces'; $wgPrivateNamespacesRead[102] = 'readMoreNamespaces'; $wgPrivateNamespacesRead[103] = 'readMoreNamespaces'; $wgPrivateNamespacesRead[104] = 'readMoreNamespaces'; $wgPrivateNamespacesRead[105] = 'readMoreNamespaces'; $wgPrivateNamespacesRead[106] = 'readMoreNamespaces'; $wgPrivateNamespacesRead[107] = 'readMoreNamespaces';

//to read them you need to be registered $wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['readMoreNamespaces'] = true;

I practically copied PrivateNamespaces extension by amidaniel. Use at your own risk. If you know a bit of PHP, you should be able to customize it to do whatever you want.

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