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Gordon Morehouse

30 Jan 2005 30 Jan '05

8:44 p.m.

Hello all, I'm using Mediawiki 1.3.9 to run a personal wiki, and I've disabled anonymous editing. However, there are a couple articles which I'd like to allow users who are not logged in to edit. Is this possible and if so how could I accomplish it?

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Ashar Voultoiz

31 Jan 31 Jan

7:20 a.m.

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Hello all, I'm using Mediawiki 1.3.9 to run a personal wiki, and I've disabled anonymous editing. However, there are a couple articles which I'd like to allow users who are not logged in to edit. Is this possible and if so how could I accomplish it?

Not possible. Preventing anonymous user to edit block them for ALL articles. - -- Ashar Voultoiz - WP++++ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hashar http://www.livejournal.com/community/wikitech/ Servers in trouble ? noc (at) wikimedia (dot) org

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Frank v Waveren

7:51 a.m.

On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 06:20:48AM +0100, Ashar Voultoiz wrote:

Gordon Morehouse wrote:

I'm using Mediawiki 1.3.9 to run a personal wiki, and I've disabled anonymous editing. However, there are a couple articles which I'd like to allow users who are not logged in to edit. Is this possible and if so how could I accomplish it?

Not possible. Preventing anonymous user to edit block them for ALL articles.

Perhaps you could protect all pages apart from those that are anon-editable and give all logged in users sufficient privileges to edit protected pages? Bit of a hack, but it might work for some specific cases. -- Frank v Waveren Fingerprint: BDD7 D61E fvw(a)[var.cx|stack.nl] ICQ#10074100 5D39 CF05 4BFC F57A Public key: hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/468D62C8 FA00 7D51 468D 62C8

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NSK

8:53 a.m.

On Monday 31 January 2005 07:51, Frank v Waveren wrote:

Perhaps you could protect all pages apart from those that are anon-editable and give all logged in users sufficient privileges to edit protected pages? Bit of a hack, but it might work for some specific cases.

This is what I am doing on my wikis, such as http://www.nerdypc.org -- NSK http://portal.wikinerds.org/freehosting

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Gordon Morehouse

1 Feb 1 Feb

3:28 a.m.

Frank v Waveren <fvw.wikipediaml <at> var.cx> writes:

Perhaps you could protect all pages apart from those that are anon-editable and give all logged in users sufficient privileges to edit protected pages? Bit of a hack, but it might work for some specific cases.

Wouldn't I have to each new page to the config file by hand in that case?

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Frank v Waveren

2 Feb 2 Feb

10:44 p.m.

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 01:28:12AM +0000, Gordon Morehouse wrote:

Wouldn't I have to each new page to the config file by hand in that case?

Hmm, good point. Then you'll just have to hack it into the source somewhere, I've been reading around and it's not half as messy as some people say. Poke me for help on wikipedia or via email tomorrow evening if you have trouble figuring out how to do it and we can have trouble figuring out how to do it together. -- Frank v Waveren Fingerprint: BDD7 D61E fvw(a)[var.cx|stack.nl] ICQ#10074100 5D39 CF05 4BFC F57A Public key: hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/468D62C8 FA00 7D51 468D 62C8

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Rowan Collins

10:50 p.m.

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 01:28:12 +0000 (UTC), Gordon Morehouse <spambox(a)evernex.com> wrote:

Frank v Waveren <fvw.wikipediaml <at> var.cx> writes:

Perhaps you could protect all pages apart from those that are anon-editable and give all logged in users sufficient privileges to edit protected pages? Bit of a hack, but it might work for some specific cases.

Wouldn't I have to each new page to the config file by hand in that case?

No. "Protection" is an action performed by anyone with (in all current versions of MediaWiki) "sysop" status, through the normal web interface - see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Administration and linked pages for a few further clues about this. [Basically, if you are logged in with sysop privileges, you should see an extra tab above articles marked "protect" or "unprotect".] -- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]

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Frank v Waveren

10:55 p.m.

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 08:50:55PM +0000, Rowan Collins wrote:

Wouldn't I have to each new page to the config file by hand in that case?

No. "Protection" is an action performed by anyone with (in all current versions of MediaWiki) "sysop" status, through the normal web interface - see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Administration and linked pages for a few further clues about this. [Basically, if you are logged in with sysop privileges, you should see an extra tab above articles marked "protect" or "unprotect".]

I think he means that each newly created page would have to be manually set to protected, which would indeed be a nuisance. -- Frank v Waveren Fingerprint: BDD7 D61E fvw(a)[var.cx|stack.nl] ICQ#10074100 5D39 CF05 4BFC F57A Public key: hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/468D62C8 FA00 7D51 468D 62C8

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Ashar Voultoiz
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