Hi,
I'd like to set my mediawiki up with two completely different views:
* 'Normal' users will see the wiki as if it was a static web site. None of the options or tabs normally seen along the top of the wiki page or down the left side should be visible to them at all. They will not be able to log in or edit any pages.
* Admin users will see the wiki as a normal wiki, with all the default options and tabs visible, once they have logged in (the link to the log-in page will be from an external site)
Is there any simple way to do this?
Thanks Graham
On 11-03-01 10:18 AM, graham wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to set my mediawiki up with two completely different views:
- 'Normal' users will see the wiki as if it was a static web site. None
of the options or tabs normally seen along the top of the wiki page or down the left side should be visible to them at all. They will not be able to log in or edit any pages.
- Admin users will see the wiki as a normal wiki, with all the default
options and tabs visible, once they have logged in (the link to the log-in page will be from an external site)
Is there any simple way to do this?
I haven't tried, but the skin is fairly late to be loaded (I think) so you might be able to detect the user via an extension and then dynamically update the default skin and which skins are available to the user... essentially pigeonholing them once you know what kind of user they are.
Cheers, Rob.
graham wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to set my mediawiki up with two completely different views:
- 'Normal' users will see the wiki as if it was a static web site. None
of the options or tabs normally seen along the top of the wiki page or down the left side should be visible to them at all. They will not be able to log in or edit any pages.
- Admin users will see the wiki as a normal wiki, with all the default
options and tabs visible, once they have logged in (the link to the log-in page will be from an external site)
Is there any simple way to do this?
Thanks Graham
Yes. Disable account registration and anonymous editing. Then change the skin to show differently to anonymous users, removing the tabs and so on (you can just create a plain skin and have the admins choose a more wiki skin in their preferences).
Hi Graham, do remember to have your "log-in" link visible at all times, otherwise you will have trouble getting in when your log-in session expires or when you clear your cookies.
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
graham wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to set my mediawiki up with two completely different views:
- 'Normal' users will see the wiki as if it was a static web site. None
of the options or tabs normally seen along the top of the wiki page or down the left side should be visible to them at all. They will not be able to log in or edit any pages.
- Admin users will see the wiki as a normal wiki, with all the default
options and tabs visible, once they have logged in (the link to the log-in page will be from an external site)
Is there any simple way to do this?
Thanks Graham
Yes. Disable account registration and anonymous editing. Then change the skin to show differently to anonymous users, removing the tabs and so on (you can just create a plain skin and have the admins choose a more wiki skin in their preferences).
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Ekompute .info wrote:
Hi Graham, do remember to have your "log-in" link visible at all times, otherwise you will have trouble getting in when your log-in session expires or when you clear your cookies.
The login links doesn't even need to be visible, as far as the admins remember to manually type the url of Special:Userlogin.
Thanks for the correction, Platonides. I was trying to do the same as Graham and found that I could not log in when my cookies expired!
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
Ekompute .info wrote:
Hi Graham, do remember to have your "log-in" link visible at all times, otherwise you will have trouble getting in when your log-in session
expires
or when you clear your cookies.
The login links doesn't even need to be visible, as far as the admins remember to manually type the url of Special:Userlogin.
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