On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 1:38 AM, Martin S shieldfire@gmail.com wrote:

Reading the Manual:User rights page on Mediawiki I guess it isn't possible to have

Anonymous users (not loggged in) Edit = false; Createtalk = true; //including edit talk page

The reason I don't want anonymous users editing pages is that some of them may contain health sensitive information (editing /sabotaging them may have pretty nasty consequences). At least if you are logged in, I add some minor security for the information (of course you can still do harm if you want to, but hopefully the extra step to do so stops the average dimwit).

Access to the Talk pages would not (directly) influence the content of the page "proper".

I see there are several user rights extensions, but they all (? IIRC) come with some general warning about using them on your own risk.

What do you all think about this?

Regards,

Use the Talkright extension < http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Talkright%3E or $wgNamespaceProtection. Other extensions will work too (though they might be overkill); the warnings about access restrictions mostly concern per-page read access restrictions, I think. MediaWiki itself comes with a warning about you using it at your own risk too, by the way. :)