Hi all, Lets start off by saying I'm new to Mediawiki and at present am overwhelmed with the config info, so please be gentle with me.
I've installed Mediawiki at work and need to create two groups, "peasant" and "master". A peasant has the rights to: read, edit, rollback, upload, createpage, minoredit. A master has the rights to: read, edit, move, delete, undelete, protect, upload, rollback, createpage, minoredit.
First question: As a master is a superset of a peasant, I can define a peasant as:
peasant: read, edit, rollback, upload, createpage, minoredit
And a master as:
master: move, delete, undelete, protect.
In turn a person who is regarded as being a "master" would be a member of both the peasant and master groups ie the rights being cumulative.
These rights are defined in LocalSettings.php and have the form:
... ... $wgGroupPermissions['peasant']['read'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['peasant']['move'] = false; ... ...
Correct?
Second question: I've set up the LocalSettings.php as above for all of the rights. I've also added for User01, id = 5, a row in the user_groups table that contains ug_user = 5 and ug_group = peasant. I restarted apache and logged into the wiki as User01. As a peasant does not have the rights to edit or move, I would have expected the small tabs at the top of each page to be missing but when I brought up a page, the two small tabs for edit and move were present. I've cleared the browser, firebird, cache but they are still present. Any ideas as to why they are still there or have I misunderstood the group/rights concept - that those tabs are related to a users rights?
Final question: In Firebird entering the URL of about:plugins will list the currently installed plugins. Does Mediawiki have something similar that does a dump of all of the current config variables, such as the rights, groups etc.
Any thoughts are greatly appreciated, Andrew Lowe