User rights management limited to users you create? - MediaWiki-l

Jim Hu

16 Aug 16 Aug

1:14 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] User rights management limited to users you create?

I've started working on this, and it's morphing into a more general replacement for UserRights. The basic idea is that I'm going to make it so that the Special Page works on lists of users rather than on one user at a time, and I'm going to use checkboxes for the groups instead of the menu. Since the user lists on successful wikis will be long, I'll make the lists filterable or username (with % wildcards) or by a date range when a user was registered. And I'll have to figure out how to do paging. Sysops/Bureacrats will be able to see all users. Other users will only see the users they created, as logged in user logging (which means that this feature will require the userlog extension), and they will only be able to set groups that they have permissions for. At least that's the plan... we'll see if I can actually do it! If anyone has suggestions, please reply. And if any subset of this does already exist, please let me know!!!! Jim On Aug 15, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Jim Hu wrote:

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My wiki requires login to edit, but allows any registered user to create accounts. I'd like to create another user group "student", which can edit but can't create accounts. Based on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:User_rights I think creating the group and assigning the rights is straightforward. But I also want the users with create account rights to be able to create either regular or student accounts. Ideally, I would want users to have user rights management only on accounts that they create, and be able to use the regular user rights Special Page where regular users would only see "student" as an addable group, and only for those that were created by them. I'm guessing that I will have to write an extension... but does anything like this already exist? It would be useful in teaching environments, I think. Jim ===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054

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Jean-Lou Dupont

1:42 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] User rights management limited to users you create?

There is also Hierarchical Namespace Permissions <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Hierarchical_Namespace_Permissions> extension which enables the use of 'wildcards' to partition permissions in namespaces. jld. Katharina Wolkwitz wrote:

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Hi Jim, Jim Hu schrieb:

I've started working on this, and it's morphing into a more general replacement for UserRights. The basic idea is that I'm going to make it so that the Special Page works on lists of users rather than on one user at a time, and I'm going to use checkboxes for the groups instead of the menu.

I think it's a great and worthy idea. :-)

At least that's the plan... we'll see if I can actually do it! If anyone has suggestions, please reply. And if any subset of this does already exist, please let me know!!!!

I'm sure that you're already aware of it, but on the off-chance that not, have a look at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Group_Based_Access_Control - this extension offers a way to make pages accessible to certain groups only. One suggestion/wish - it would be great, if only those pages that are accessible to a user were to show up as search-results. :-) Good luck with the new UserRights-functionality! Greetings Katharina _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Jim Hu

20 Aug 20 Aug

7:43 a.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] UserRightsList 0.1 released Was: User rights management limited to users you create?

OK, here's something that seems to work for me. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UserRightsList I put it straight into beta because I (perhaps foolishly) went ahead and put it on my production wiki. Jim On Aug 16, 2007, at 8:14 AM, Jim Hu wrote:

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I've started working on this, and it's morphing into a more general replacement for UserRights. The basic idea is that I'm going to make it so that the Special Page works on lists of users rather than on one user at a time, and I'm going to use checkboxes for the groups instead of the menu. Since the user lists on successful wikis will be long, I'll make the lists filterable or username (with % wildcards) or by a date range when a user was registered. And I'll have to figure out how to do paging. Sysops/Bureacrats will be able to see all users. Other users will only see the users they created, as logged in user logging (which means that this feature will require the userlog extension), and they will only be able to set groups that they have permissions for. At least that's the plan... we'll see if I can actually do it! If anyone has suggestions, please reply. And if any subset of this does already exist, please let me know!!!! Jim On Aug 15, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Jim Hu wrote:

My wiki requires login to edit, but allows any registered user to create accounts. I'd like to create another user group "student", which can edit but can't create accounts. Based on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:User_rights I think creating the group and assigning the rights is straightforward. But I also want the users with create account rights to be able to create either regular or student accounts. Ideally, I would want users to have user rights management only on accounts that they create, and be able to use the regular user rights Special Page where regular users would only see "student" as an addable group, and only for those that were created by them. I'm guessing that I will have to write an extension... but does anything like this already exist? It would be useful in teaching environments, I think. Jim ===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054

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