Re: [Mediawiki-l] how to create a bureaucrats group which in turn gives

Message: 2 Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 13:27:28 +0000 From: "Thomas Dalton" <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] how to create a bureaucrats group which in turn gives access to other people to make edits. To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Message-ID: <a4359dff0711030627p6164f3dapf6c5cb6ef3c4544d(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 03/11/2007, shirish <shirishag75(a)gmail.com> wrote: Do you actually want to restrict account creation, or just editing? It's often easier to let people create their own accounts, and then just have someone give them permission to edit. To do that, try something like: $wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = true; # Allow anons to read $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = true; # Allow anons to create accounts $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false; # Stop anon edits $wgGroupPermissions['user']['edit'] = false; # Stop accounts without permission editing $wgGroupPermissions['editor']['edit'] = true; # Create a new user group for people with permission to edit $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['userrights'] = true; # let sysop change user permissions $wgAddGroups['sysop'] = array( 'editor' ); # Allow sysops to grant edit permissions on Special:Userrights $wgRemoveGroups['sysop'] = array( 'editor'); # Allow sysops to remove those permissions Hope that helps. You may want to fine tune a few bits (who can create pages, create talk pages, etc).