One thing that would be a useful feature/patch to help with this is to allow some way to allow regexes in $wgWhitelistRead instead of absolute pages (eg, if it starts with "/", assume it's a regex), so that namespaces, certian pages, etc. can not be accessed by annons.
If an admin wants to implement a more advanced system (eg, for every group (user, bureaucrat, sysop, developer, and bot) have a seperate whitelist and blacklist), that can probably be implemented by expanding sections of code that use the variable $wgWhitelistRead (in my quick scan, that's User.php lines 638-662 and Title.php lines 835-856, though there may be more). Though implementing such a massive change will make upgrading a lot of work.
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 14:52:15 -0800, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
On Jan 15, 2005, at 9:30 AM, Tony Linde wrote:
On that point, is it possible to allow unregistered users to add comments while restricting *editing* the page/discussion to registered users? If not, is there any other way to allow unregistered users to comment?
Not unless you code it.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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