On 09/05/12 23:05, Turnbough, Bradley E. wrote:
Hello,
Version 1.14 MediaWiki
Why are you using such old version?
I need to be able to utilize "Page
Protection" in my MediaWiki installation.
To use the page proctection mechanism of MediaWiki, you use the protect
tab. You need to be a sysop to have that (or otherwise be in a group
with the protect right).
Or do you mean
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageProtection ?
That seems to hide from view page sections, not what you want.
I have absolutely no clue how to do it and the
explanations I've found via google are only confusing me.
Can someone please provide me with a step by step solution (including the why and how for
each step)
The ONLY thing that I've been able to figure out so far is that I had to create a
group "DrawingQuality"
and assign it the "protect" right in LocalSettings.php. The group
shows
up in the Special:ListGroupRights
mediawiki page, so I believe that is correct. I'm
not sure if that
group has all of the rights that
they should have, however.
I want that group to be able to protect pages. If
they are the ones who protect the page,
I want them and only them to be able to unprotect it.
You can't. Anyone able to protect a page, can also unprotect it.
You could make DrawingQuality the only ones able to do that, but I see
no reason for that.
You seem to want a group of people setting the quality of the pages, and
then protect them so that nobody can alter it.
Think a bit. Do you really need to do enforce that protection? If only X
and Y guys should put marks, anyone else responsible enough wouldn't be
doing it. And in a wiki it's trivial to find who changed that when it
shouldn't (so he can be 'punished').
Specially, you should trust your wiki sysops not to do such things.
Also, there may be reasons to change the content of the page even if
it's quality is set. For instance, it may be appropiate to change a bit
on the description.