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A quick grep for the wgWhitelistRead variable shows
that it doesnt exist
in any other files but Local and Default settings, and thus is never
checked anywhere. The language files contain a "you need to be logged in
to read" text, but the functionality seems totally missing.
Any ideas?
I have implemented use of '$wgWhitelistRead' in the wiki code but it may
not have been included in a release candidate yet. It should be available
in the head CVS revision (use at your own risk), on SourceForge.
In my implementation, you set '$wgWhitelistRead' to an array of values of
the form "namespace:articleName", each of which is an article a user may
see without actually logging in. For example
$wgWhitelistRead = array ( ":Main_Page", "Special:Userlogin",
"Wikipedia:Help");
If the user goes to any other article, they are given a message that they
must login first to see the page they've gone to.
Note that "Special:Userlogin" has to be included in the list, otherwise a
user could never log in. As a debugging aid, I put an invisible HTML
comment in the error page with the identifier of the article the user was
trying to reach.
Nick Pisarro