A while back I threw out a question about automatically renaming a file on upload, but no one had an answer so I thought I would try a different avenue. Does anyone know away that all file uploads could be automatically protected upon upload? So if someone tried to upload a photo with name already used they couldn't overwrite it? Thanks _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Does anyone know away that all file uploads could be automatically protected upon upload? So if someone tried to upload a photo with name already used they couldn't overwrite it?

The right to replace existing files is handled by an extra permission, called reupload: * To prevent normal users from overriding existing files: $wgGroupPermissions['user']['reupload'] = false; * To allow "autoconfirmed" (non-newbie) users to replace existing files: $wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['reupload'] = true; If a ForeignFileRepo is set, the right to replace those files locally is handled by an special permission, called reupload-shared: * To prevent normal users from overriding filerepo files locally: $wgGroupPermissions['user']['reupload-shared'] = false; * To allow "autoconfirmed" (non-newbie) users to replace filerepo files locally: $wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['reupload-shared'] = true;