Hello
This might be a question against the spirit of wiki, but is it possible
to restrict the write and *read* access to certain pages on a wiki?
By restrict I mean only the sysop can see and edit these pages.
Thanks
Uwe Brauer
Hi,
I added a simple extension that provides the ability to prevent articles
with certain title names from being saved or created. A spam problem we have
on wikiHow - which appears to be coming from a bot - is that several
articles are created with URLs for title names. This is a pretty straight
forward way of preventing this:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BlockTitles
Travis
On 29/11/06, 80686(a)svn.wikimedia.org <80686(a)svn.wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Revision: 18007
> Author: 80686
> Date: 2006-11-29 14:25:31 -0800 (Wed, 29 Nov 2006)
With all due respect, what kind of ridiculous username is that? How
are we supposed to link "80686" to a person in a quick manner? I see
"brion", I can think "Brion Vibber, don't argue with his code", I see
"tstarling", I know it's Tim.
"80686" might be a popular username, but we aren't dealing with a
bunch of children dancing about behind some wonderful label. We're
dealing with people who need to be a touch *more* accountable than the
damn wikis this is powering.
In addition, using a number is confusing. It could get mistaken for a
revision number or identifier of another form.
Rob Church
Dear Rob,
> With all due respect, what kind of ridiculous username is that? How
> are we supposed to link "80686" to a person in a quick manner? I see
> "brion", I can think "Brion Vibber, don't argue with his code", I see
> "tstarling", I know it's Tim.
well, it's me, as I'm known since 15 years in all kind of computing fields,
including Wikipedia, MediaWiki and the IRC channels.
Exactly like Brion (thanks) has introduced me in his mail.
> "80686" might be a popular username, but we aren't dealing with a
> bunch of children dancing about behind some wonderful label. We're
> dealing with people who need to be a touch *more* accountable than the
> damn wikis this is powering.
It is not propular, and that's the reason why I kept it since 15 years.
I don't know how young you are, but as learned IT specialists and studied
computer scientiest (applied computerscience in the field of internet
engineering) I don't see a problem here.
To be honest, I didn't find sponsors to pay people to create questioned
extensions and deal with them that they may be put under GPL to be pissed off
by you because of such a stupid thing like a username.
--
Regards
Manuel Schneider
Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge
www.wikimedia.ch
An automated run of parserTests.php showed the following failures:
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2 new PASSING test(s) :)
* ISBN with space-delimited number
* ISBN with multiple spaces, no number
Passed 451 of 471 tests (95.75%)... FAILED!
< second % is stuck to the link following it
b> Try describing the problem...?
There is no space between the second % and the following link. Turning
off styles, ALT V Y N, and the space comes back. Or remove the Chinese
to make a pure English post, and the space comes back.