With 1.3.x protect those pages and give the users you want to have editing permission sysop privileges. I think 1.4rc is the same.

There seems to be a bunch of development plans for security in the 1.5 release.

al.

-----Original Message----- From: John Michael Norvell [mailto:norvell@fas.harvard.edu] Sent: Wednesday, 2 March 2005 2:09 p.m. To: mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org Subject: [Mediawiki-l] restricting editing to a group of users

Hello, I have an installation that gives open read privileges but requires login to edit...

i.e.: $wgWhitelistEdit = true; $wgWhitelistRead = false; $wgWhitelistAccount = array ( "user" => 0, "sysop" => 1, "developer" => 1 );

What I would like to do is occasionally close editing on a page or two to all but a specific list of registered users. Any way to do that in LocalSettings.php and maintain my existing access scheme for the rest of the

site?