[Mediawiki-l] ProtectSection.php extension

[Fred Bauder]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Hu [mailto:jimhu at tamu.edu]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:53 AM
>To: 'MediaWiki announcements and site admin list'
>Subject: [Mediawiki-l] ProtectSection.php extension
>
>I meant to do this months ago but just got around to it today.  I put  
>a page for ProtectSection.php up on mediawiki.org
>
>	http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ProtectSection
>
>it links to the svn version and has the code for my modified version  
>on the page.  Originally written by ThomasV... I just tweaked it.
>
>For those who don't already know, ProtectSection.php allows you to  
>block editing of text between <protect></protect> tags from editing  
>by anyone who is not a sysop or a bureaucrat (these group permissions  
>can be modified in the code).  My modification suppresses the section  
>edit link for subsections inside protect tags - it may not work  
>properly with caching, but I don't have squid running for my wikis so  
>I can't test that.
>=====================================
>Jim Hu
>Associate Professor
>Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
>2128 TAMU
>Texas A&M Univ.
>College Station, TX 77843-2128
>979-862-4054

It installed all right (after I got my typos fixed). It did not allow editing when I was not logged in. It does not respect the <nowiki> tag, or perhaps the nowiki tag does not recognize it.

"==Protect section==
I have added an extension to the /extensions folder ProtectSection.php see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ProtectSection Supposedly it will by use of the tags <nowiki><protect>(section protected)</protect></nowiki> protect the section between the beginning and ending tags. This should be useful for signed articles, copyright notices, and links back to Wikipedia. Please test and comment. [[User:FJB|FJB]] 16:49, 17 April 2007 (EDT)
:It works when I am not logged in, but gives no warning that the section is protected until after the edit is attempted. Of course, one can see the tag, if one is looking for it. [[User:Fred Bauder|Fred]] 16:52, 17 April 2007 (EDT)"

Shows as:

"Protect section

I have added an extension to the /extensions folder ProtectSection.php see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ProtectSection Supposedly it will by use of the tags (section protected) protect the section between the beginning and ending tags. This should be useful for signed articles, copyright notices, and links back to Wikipedia. Please test and comment. FJB 16:49, 17 April 2007 (EDT) "

I guess it must be this way, otherwise it could be defeated by the simple addition of nowiki tags inclosing the protected section. However it does present a problem in explaining the tag.

This was tried on a system which has a robust, and troublesome, caching system, ibiblio. Seemed to take effect immediately.

Fred