Hm...doesn't these two lines mean that "Users (logged in or not) can't edit PAGES"? I want that to be like that -- users should not edit pages since this is a web page, but they should be able to participate by contributing to 'talk' pages. ----- Original Message ---- From: Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 11:31:39 PM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Users can not 'talk' asselarain-mediawikil(a)yahoo.com wrote: [snip] [snip] That would appear to be your problem. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

asselarain-mediawikil-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w(a)public.gmane.org a écrit : I think the 'talk' right doesn't exist in mediawiki default installation, you need to create it by changing a little bit the *isAllowed()* function in "includes/User.php " folder. A few months ago, I found this on mediawiki.org (but I can't remember on which page) : (it's for 1.5.8, but it shouldn't be too difficult to adapt it to 1.7.1) change this : function isAllowed($action='') { $this->loadFromDatabase(); return in_array( $action , $this->mRights ); } into this function isAllowed($action='', $title = NULL) { if( $title == NULL ) { global $wgTitle; $title = $wgTitle; } $this->loadFromDatabase(); if( in_array( $action , $this->mRights ) ) { return true; } // If user wants to edit a talk page and has the talk right, and the subject page exists, allow him to do so... if( $action == 'edit' && $title->isTalkPage() && in_array('talk', $this->mRights)) { $subject_page = $title->getSubjectPage(); if ($subject_page->exists()) { return true; } } return false; } Alexis

I think this is it! What had happened is, long time back I had this mod done in my code and when it was upgraded, obviously the mod was wiped away! Thanks a lot for the valuable advice. ----- Original Message ---- From: Alexis Moinet <alexis.moinet(a)fpms.ac.be> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 4:44:06 PM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Users can not 'talk' I found it on meta for 1.6.5 (and, most likely, it works with 1.7.1): http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:User_rights#Questions function isAllowed($action='') { if ( $action === '' ) // In the spirit of DWIM return true; /* Special Cases */ global $wgTitle; //Allow them to edit talk pages if ($wgTitle->isTalkPage() && strcmp("edit", $action) == 0) return true; //No special cases relevant. Use established rules stored in DB. $this->loadFromDatabase(); return in_array( $action , $this->mRights ); } I don't know which one of $action == 'edit' (see previous post) or strcmp("edit", $action) == 0 is the most secure, sounds like both might be unsafe. Anyway, I would, at least, change the code above to : $this->loadFromDatabase(); if ($wgTitle->isTalkPage() && strcmp("edit", $action) == 0 && in_array('talk', $this->mRights)) return true; return in_array( $action , $this->mRights ); *If I were you, I would wait for most competent advices than mine about the safety of this kind of modification* Alexis _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

I've got MediaWiki 1.82 working on my Apache server; I've got image upload enabled. What do I need to do to get SVGs rendered to PNG using InkScape - where do I change it in LocalSettings.php Bekki -------------------------------------------------------------------- Get your free email address at http://www.merseymail.com/

When the configuration is set to require email verification when creating an account by setting $wgEmailConfirmToEdit=true, is there a way to restrict account verification to spscific mail addresses such as "mymailserver.com" addresses. So for example, a user using the email address "joe(a)mymailserver.com" could successfully create an email verified wiki account while joe(a)msn.com would be denied? All I found in the archives is that this might require a modification of PHP code. Any ideas welcome. -Jim

Obviously usercan is a very much better way of handling restrictions compared with custom modifications to User.php (My experience with losing the mods @ upgrade is good evidence). Sadly, though, usercan seems NOT to work with 1.7.1 ! (I have attached my LocalSettings.php part below: // No anonymous editing allowed - $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['read'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['edit'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['talk'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['edit'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['move'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['talk'] = true; # Edit restrictions function wfSetEditRestrictions( &$title, &$user, $action, &$result ) { if( $action != 'edit' ) { return; } if( ( $title->isTalkPage() && !$user->isAllowed( 'talk' )) || (!$title->isTalkPage() && !$user->isAllowed( 'edit' )) ) { return false; } else { return true; } } # Set userCan hook $wgHooks['userCan'][] = 'wfSetEditRestrictions'; ----- Original Message ---- From: Rotem Liss <rotemliss_net(a)fastmail.fm> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 2:25:20 AM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Users can not 'talk' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alexis Moinet wrote: You should not handle the talk pages editing in User::isAllowed ? it's a general function for *all* the permissions, and editing talk pages is not a "special case"! The right way would be to add the restrictions to Title::userCan via the hook userCan. Something like that in LocalSettings.php may work (I didn't check it), and will not be removed in upgrades: # Set group edit restrictions $wgGroupPermissions['*']['editpage'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['user']['editpage'] = true; $wgGruopPermissions['*']['edittalk'] = true; # Set userCan hook $wgHooks['userCan'][] = 'wfSetEditRestrictions'; # Edit restrictions function wfSetEditRestrictions( &$title, &$user, $action, &$result ) { if( $action != 'edit' ) { return; } if( $title->isTalkPage() && !$user->isAllowed( 'edittalk' ) || !$title->isTalkPage() && !$user->isAllowed( 'editpage' ) { return false; } else { return true; } } _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l