Rob Church wrote:
On 15/08/06, Phil Boswell phil.boswell@gmail.com wrote:
Andrew Garrett wrote:
Questions, comments and requests for demonstrations are more than
welcome. This is obviously going to be a great help to other users of Mediawiki as well. It makes good sense to have a proper UI for as many of these delicate operations as we can manage.
Phil, MediaWiki contains a built-in rights management interface. It makes more sense to me if we fixed up one extension for Wikimedia which combined Makesysop, Makebot, Giverollback and now this...thing...into something manageable and useful. Configuration can determine what groups can grant and revoke which rights. Four different pages to do similar tasks is pushing the boundaries.
Can't argue with that...in my defence, m'lud, I have no access to anything like that AFAIK so had no way of knowing about it.
Another way of looking at it is that this would give local administrators the choice of having a monolithic interface which does everything, or simply enabling the individual operations as they wanted.
Obviously it would make sense to coordinate the monolithic and separate interfaces to ensure they use common code where appropriate.
So now we need some way of configuring the configuration tools...<lapses into incoherent babble>
Well, at least now we have something to work with...quite the wiki-way ;-)
Cheers...HAND