On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 1:38 AM, Martin S <shieldfire(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Reading the Manual:User rights page on Mediawiki I
guess it isn't possible
to have
Anonymous users (not loggged in)
Edit = false;
Createtalk = true; //including edit talk page
The reason I don't want anonymous users editing pages is that some of them
may contain health sensitive information (editing /sabotaging them may have
pretty nasty consequences). At least if you are logged in, I add some minor
security for the information (of course you can still do harm if you want
to, but hopefully the extra step to do so stops the average dimwit).
Access to the Talk pages would not (directly) influence the content of the
page "proper".
I see there are several user rights extensions, but they all (? IIRC) come
with some general warning about using them on your own risk.
What do you all think about this?
Regards,
Use the Talkright extension <
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Talkright> or
$wgNamespaceProtection. Other extensions will work too (though they might
be overkill); the warnings about access restrictions mostly concern per-page
read access restrictions, I think. MediaWiki itself comes with a warning
about you using it at your own risk too, by the way. :)