[Mediawiki-l] createtalk = true doesn't allow users to adddiscution

[Thomas Dalton]

On 21/11/2007, johan.boye at latecoere.fr <johan.boye at latecoere.fr> wrote:
> > > $wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['edit']            = false;
> >
> > That's your problem. You can't create any kind of page if you
> > aren't allowed to edit. You'll need to allow users to edit,
> > and then protect all but the talk namespace using
> > $wgNamespaceProtection (see DefaultSettings.php and
> > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access for more info).
>
> Ho no, it pretty sucks :-(  I can't handle the protection of each new
> page. That's the only know way to allow discussion & not edit pages ?

You don't need to protect each page individually, you can protect
whole namespaces. See the webpage I suggested.