Michael Kingery (HL7) wrote:
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;
Mike Kingery Director of Technical Services Health Level Seven International +1 (919) 636-4032
Yes, but sysop is equivalent in this context to "someone able to protect and unprotect pages". There's no option like the one you want. And even if you removed the "people with protect can edit any protected page", they would still be able to unprotect it. You would need an extension to give them the ability to protect without the other capabilities that are currently associated with protect.