New subject: [Mediawiki-l] $wgNamespaceProtection

4 Apr 2007


      I finally got a test environment set up so I can try out different
methods for access control.
The first one I wanted to try was suggested by Platonides.
I took a look at the diffs at
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=rev&revision=19110 and
applied them manually to included/Title.php and
includes/DefaultSettings.php.
This is as far as I got.
I guess since it isn't included in the default download of MediaWiki
there isn't much talk about using it out there.
Could someone explain to me how I would use this to restrict editing of
pages in "namespace x" to users in "group y"?
Thanks,
~Eric
Relevant quotes from a previous thread "access controls in 1.9.3" below
Platonides wrote:
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Frederik Dohr wrote:
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If you only want to restrict by namespace, it's much easier. You
could
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code an an extension for it or even use the builtin 
$wgNamespaceProtection (including everything but Talk namespace).
Hmm, the manual page* says $wgNamespaceProtection was introduced in
v1.10, which has not been released yet... !?
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Sounds interesting though!
It's on SVN. You can download a full install from there 
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
You can also patch your current version. $wgNamespaceProtection was 
included in r19110
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=rev&revision=19110
Another posible solution would be using the Talkright extension
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talkright_extension
Platonides wrote:
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Frederich, Eric P21322 wrote:
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Does using $wgNamespaceProtection give me the option to restrict
editing
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anything in a namespace (except the talk pages) to a particular
group?
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I'm guessing I can create a custom group of people and don't have to
use
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the default sysop / bureaucrat stuff.
Yes, it requires the user to have a permission (which you can give to a
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custom
group). Talk pages are not affected, as Talk_X is a different namespace
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than X