How does one setup a media wiki that has protection against persons who would want to post very inappropriate material? I know that many wiki software engines do have permission settings to only allow registered users the ability to edit the wiki. Unfortunately, that has been my need and concern. Thanks, Bruce -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ B. M. Whealton - Web Developer, Programmer, Owner: Future Wave Designs: http://FutureWaveDesigns.com "On Being a Poet and Other Existential Ideas":> http://WordSaladPoetryMagazine.com/words/ Publisher of Word Salad Poetry Magazine: http://WordSaladPoetryMagazine.com/ - Submit your poetry ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

See: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access Marcin Łukasz Kiejzik 2010/7/18, B. M. Whealton <bwhealton(a)futurewavedesigns.com>om>:

B. M. Whealton wrote: You probably need a captcha [1]. That will filter most of the bots. Note that requiring to register is not a guarantee to keep out bots (some register just to spam you) and its annoying for some users. Anyway, a wiki needs attention. You should dedicate a bit of time to look at Special:Recentchanges. Perhaps some minutes a week/or a month. It's sad to see wikis that no admin has edited for months, and whose content has been buried under spam just because nobody cared about it. They restricted editing to registered users when creating and didn't look at it any more, still running a version years old. 1-http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit

B. M. Whealton wrote: I see. You may block anonymous editing by adding to LocalSettings.php $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false; like Łukasz pointed out. You may also be interested in http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs

Scheid, Bernhard wrote: The skins inherit from the linker. You could create a skin (supposing you want it to look like the vector skin) by putting in the appropiate file in the skins folder something like this: require_once "Vector.php"; class SkinBernhard extends SkinVector { var $skinname = 'bernhardtoc'; function tocLine( $anchor, $tocline, $tocnumber, $level, $sectionIndex = false ) { $n = strpos($tocline, ' '); if ($n !== false) $tocline = substr( $tocline, 0, $n ); return parent::tocLine($anchor, $tocline, $tocnumber, $level, $sectionIndex); } } In this case, if the has a double space, the toc only shows the text that appears before that.

Thank you, unfortunately it does not work. I do use a skin of my own and inserted your function there, but to no effect. I also tried ' ' and '-' as a delimiter. B. PS: Seems to be a good candidate for an extension, however I am unable to do that... -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von Platonides Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. Juli 2010 01:54 An: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Betreff: Re: [Mediawiki-l] short headers in TOC Scheid, Bernhard wrote: The skins inherit from the linker. You could create a skin (supposing you want it to look like the vector skin) by putting in the appropiate file in the skins folder something like this: require_once "Vector.php"; class SkinBernhard extends SkinVector { var $skinname = 'bernhardtoc'; function tocLine( $anchor, $tocline, $tocnumber, $level, $sectionIndex = false ) { $n = strpos($tocline, ' '); if ($n !== false) $tocline = substr( $tocline, 0, $n ); return parent::tocLine($anchor, $tocline, $tocnumber, $level, $sectionIndex); } } In this case, if the has a double space, the toc only shows the text that appears before that. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Scheid, Bernhard wrote: It works for me. Make sure you purge the page, since the generated toc will be stored in the parser cache...