MediaWiki 1.71 Function initialiseFromUser( &$userInput ) { Line 4591

$this->mEditSection = true;

meaning imho that by default the possibility to edit section is set to true. I think this is a reason why in LocalSettings.php

$wgDefaultUserOptions['editsection'] = 0

does'nt work (It did not in my wiki).

In MediaWiki 1.46 you can find the line.

$this->mEditSection = $user->getOption( 'editsection' );

Here the possibility to edit section is defined by LocalSettings.php.

I used this lines for my purpose

if ($user->getID()) { $this->mEditSection = $user->getOption( 'editsection' ); } else { $this->mEditSection = 0; }

by Zigger, from (http): mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2004-November/002099.html

HeinzJ