How can I prevent the creation of pages in the User: namespace that are not for actual wiki users? For example, anybody can create an article called "User:nonexistent" when there is no user named "nonexistent".
DanB
Daniel Barrett wrote:
How can I prevent the creation of pages in the User: namespace that are not for actual wiki users? For example, anybody can create an article called "User:nonexistent" when there is no user named "nonexistent".
The wiki way to do it is to delete them.
Yeah, yeah, I know... way too simple.
The hard, tedious, "automatic" way is to write a hook for the ArticleSave event that will return an error if the article is in the user namespace and has a title that's not a current user's name. Check out hooks.txt in the doc subdirectory for info.
-Evan
^_^ Feel lucky... You poked the coding bone...
Voila... http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NoBogusUserpages Fresh off the rack and made for your use.
It stops creation (Not editing) of userpages for users who do not exist. I made sure that: * The extension does not block creation of userpages for IPv4 or IPv6 IP's. * You can give users (Sysops by default) the ability to create bogus userpages. * The extension properly uses only the part before the /, so you can't create [[User:Nonexistant]] or [[User:Nonexistant/subpage]] when Nonexistant does not exist. But it does not stop you from creating [[User:Dantman/subpage]] when Dantman exists, but 'Dantman/subpage' which is invalid, does not exist.
Also, if you are using MediaWiki 1.12 it will use the new hook that lets us use a custom access restriction message instead of a generic one. Just see the warning on that page, it could be a little hazardous if you are using MW1.12a but have a version older than r26568 when the new hook was added.
BTW, I used access restriction instead of ArticleSave. By doing that, the edit link won't show up (In pre 1.12a though it will show view source), and a user won't end up going to an edit page, and finding out that after they've typed a bunch of stuff up, they cannot create the page that they've been writing stuff for.
~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of: -The Gaiapedia (http://gaia.wikia.com) -Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG) -and Wiki-Tools.com (http://wiki-tools.com)
Evan Prodromou wrote:
Daniel Barrett wrote:
How can I prevent the creation of pages in the User: namespace that are not for actual wiki users? For example, anybody can create an article called "User:nonexistent" when there is no user named "nonexistent".
The wiki way to do it is to delete them.
Yeah, yeah, I know... way too simple.
The hard, tedious, "automatic" way is to write a hook for the ArticleSave event that will return an error if the article is in the user namespace and has a title that's not a current user's name. Check out hooks.txt in the doc subdirectory for info.
-Evan
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Not quite the same problem, but there's an extension that keeps users from modifying any User page or subpage other than their own called KeepYourHandsToYourself[1]. Prevents users from editing bogus user pages the same as it prevents users from editing eachothers pages.
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:KeepYourHandsToYourself
-- Jim R. Wilson (jimbojw)
On Jan 8, 2008 3:22 AM, DanTMan dan_the_man@telus.net wrote:
^_^ Feel lucky... You poked the coding bone...
Voila... http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NoBogusUserpages Fresh off the rack and made for your use.
It stops creation (Not editing) of userpages for users who do not exist. I made sure that:
- The extension does not block creation of userpages for IPv4 or IPv6 IP's.
- You can give users (Sysops by default) the ability to create bogus
userpages.
- The extension properly uses only the part before the /, so you can't
create [[User:Nonexistant]] or [[User:Nonexistant/subpage]] when Nonexistant does not exist. But it does not stop you from creating [[User:Dantman/subpage]] when Dantman exists, but 'Dantman/subpage' which is invalid, does not exist.
Also, if you are using MediaWiki 1.12 it will use the new hook that lets us use a custom access restriction message instead of a generic one. Just see the warning on that page, it could be a little hazardous if you are using MW1.12a but have a version older than r26568 when the new hook was added.
BTW, I used access restriction instead of ArticleSave. By doing that, the edit link won't show up (In pre 1.12a though it will show view source), and a user won't end up going to an edit page, and finding out that after they've typed a bunch of stuff up, they cannot create the page that they've been writing stuff for.
~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of: -The Gaiapedia (http://gaia.wikia.com) -Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG) -and Wiki-Tools.com (http://wiki-tools.com)
Evan Prodromou wrote:
Daniel Barrett wrote:
How can I prevent the creation of pages in the User: namespace that are not for actual wiki users? For example, anybody can create an article called "User:nonexistent" when there is no user named "nonexistent".
The wiki way to do it is to delete them.
Yeah, yeah, I know... way too simple.
The hard, tedious, "automatic" way is to write a hook for the ArticleSave event that will return an error if the article is in the user namespace and has a title that's not a current user's name. Check out hooks.txt in the doc subdirectory for info.
-Evan
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