Hi Nav,
Try http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Simple_Security
But it'll not automatically restrict only to author. I'm just thinking aloud: is it possible to include the default text (there's some parameter for that, right?) as {{#security:edit|{{CURRENTUSER}}}}? Here {{CURRENTUSER}} stands for the parser function of the uuser-- I'm not sure whether such a function exist or not :)
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-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jean-Lou Dupont Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 1:48 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Only article authors can edit their articles
It gets just a little bit more difficult because the original author of a document isn't an information that is 'attached' to a page revision (only the last editor is). For sure, if one makes the assumption that *only* the author is ever allowed to edit the page in question, then one just has to pull out the username of the page's last revision... but then, this does not leave much more for special groups (e.g. sysop) to come in and manage the pages in question.
Of course it can be done but, depending on method used, it can translate to slower transaction rates.
Jean-Lou Dupont.
On 10/18/07, Nav Ail some_777@yahoo.com wrote:
Thanks Jim, Just to ask, do you think it is possible using your extension to do so
that some articles are treated as "authored articles" (that is, edited
only by their creators), and others - as free-to-edit-by-everybody
ones.
Because this is exactly the behavior I am after.
Jim Wilson wilson.jim.r@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nav,
To me, having the "author" of an article be the only one to edit it seems like an arms race - first one there wins! So the only way to do
it reasonably is to either use a naming convention, or have a real person manage who is the "author" of a page (which further requires storing "author" information in some way).
That said, one use case that's similar to the one you describe is where users may not edit eachother's user pages. For this I have created the KeepYourHandsToYourself Extension[1].
Along the same lines, you may want to restrict editorship to only a user's own pages. The use case for that might be a single-editor website where you allow registered users to modify their own pages, but don't want them messing with regular site conent. For that I've made the EditOnlyYourOwnPage Extension[2].
Good luck!
[1] http://jimbojw.com/wiki/index.php?title=KeepYourHandsToYourself_Extens ion [2] http://jimbojw.com/wiki/index.php?title=EditOnlyYourOwnPage_Extension
-- Jim R. Wilson (jimbojw)
On 10/18/07, Dave Sigafoos wrote:
There is a real push back on the idea of any "protection" as MW is designed with Wikipeida and the other Wiki* projects in mind.
There are some extensions available which add a level of *security*
...
BUT you must know that security is in the mind of the beholder. If someone has a basic level of connection to your system it is possible that they can hack into other bits (you can't stop and dishonest person .. only keep an honest person honest :)
Take a look at the extension pages and see if there is something there that will work. I believe I remember seeing something like that available.
DSig David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation PICK Guy 206-770-5585 davesigafoos@sanmar.com
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Nav
Ail
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 8:03 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Only article authors can edit their
articles
Well, I need a combination of functionalities - somethings may/need
to
be edited by all, but some - only by the correspondent creators. Do you mean that the current MediaWiki doesn't support such a
behavior?
Daniel Barrett wrote: You are actually asking, "How do I make MediaWiki not be a wiki?"
It sounds like MediaWiki is the wrong tool for your purposes.
DanB
-----Original Message----- Is it possible to setup Mediwiki so that only a person who creates
an
article to be able to edit that corresponding article and that it is locked for others?
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