I do want to give all logged-in users the right to protect a page. My understanding is that this setting does not impact who can edit a protected page. It asks you for that when you protect the page, and I tell it that I only want sysops to be able to edit the page, but it's allowing anyone to edit the page if they're logged in despite the fact that it shows a message on the edit screen saying that only sysops can edit because it's protected. And when I edit a protected page as a sysop or a logged-in user, it never forces me to unprotect the page.
Just to test, I commented out the line you listed below and this caused the Protect tab to disappear for logged-in users that are not sysops, which is not what I'm looking for.
I've found some listings on the web about the editprotect setting which I have included below, but this doesn't seem to affect anything.
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['editprotected'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['user']['editprotected'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['editprotected'] = true;
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-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Benjamin Lees Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 8:34 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Protect tab not working the way I expected
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Michael Kingery (HL7) mkingery@hl7.org wrote:
No, I don't think it's not a wrong message, it's not working
correctly.
It is correctly telling me that the page is protected; the problem is that it's still letting me edit the page despite that. It should stop
me
from editing it because I'm not logged in as a sysop.
You gave all logged-in users the right to edit protected page with this line: $wgGroupPermissions['user']['protect'] = true; Remove that line if that's not what you want.
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