[Mediawiki-l] Exact use of $wgGroupPermissions

Rob Church robchur at gmail.com
Wed Jan 25 21:59:04 UTC 2006


That message makes no sense whatsoever. What is it you want to know?
MediaWiki doesn't contain strong access controls; that's as much as it
gets. Please go and read the relevant documentation before asking
questions. See also http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html


Rob Church

On 25/01/06, grok at resist.ca <grok at resist.ca> wrote:
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> > It determines which groups can perform actions on the
> > wiki; page creation, editing, deletion, protection,
> > blocking, etc. See the relevant lines in
> > DefaultSettings.php and
> > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:$wgGroupPermissions for
> > more details.
> >
> > Rob Church
>
> This was my first impression -- but I've already been to
> that page, and it's pretty sparse. What you're saying above
> doesn't seem to completely jibe with what Brion Vibber said
> earlier either.
>
> Unless you mean this is purely a _global_, "ON/OFF" setting,
> and not the "fine-grained" one I -- and it loox like about a
> thousand other people -- have asked about here.
> ;>
>
>
> - -- grok.
>
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