[Mediawiki-l] Access rights for Categories/Namespaces

Jamie Bliss astronouth7303 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 15 23:42:46 UTC 2004


It should be noted (to anyone wondering this) that if you are a sysop
(which you probably are if you're messing with LocalSettings.php) that
you can lock a page so that only sysops can edit it.

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:49:57 -0800, Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Nov 15, 2004, at 10:50 AM, Luigi Montanez wrote:
> > # Pages anonymous (not-logged-in) users may see
> > $wgWhitelistRead = array ("Main Page", "Special:Userlogin",
> > "Wikipedia:Help", "Category:HOWTOs");
> >
> > However this doesn't allow pages in the HOWTOs category to be seen
> > anonymously. I tried using a wildcard operator ' * ', but that didn't
> > work either.
> 
> The whitelist is a list of titles of particular pages that you want to
> be accessible. If you want a lot of pages to be accessible, you should
> generally simply have an open site.
> 
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
> 
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