[Mediawiki-l] Re: Protection specific to anons

[Jamie Bliss]

steve v wrote:
>  I dont do the bugzilla thing, so Im filing this here,
>  with no expectation or requirement for feedback.
> 
> Page protection currently is limited to either no
> protection or protection against all but sysops.
> Policy places strict limitations on sysop edits of
> protected pages.
> 
> A second tier of protection may be useful, if it
> allows for edits by logged-in users only. This would
> be equivalent to a Localsettings.php requiring log-ins
> for all edits, only particular for each page. This
> could provide for some gradation in how protection is
> applied, and save some hassles regarding an the
> current on-off system.

In 1.5, there is group-based control for actions. The 1.5 DB schema 
seems to support per-page restrictions (not sure if/how MW supports this).

And the logged-in to edit was implemented as an option back in 1.3, I think.

-- Jamie
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