[Mediawiki-l] Protect tab not working the way I expected

[Michael Kingery (HL7)]

I do want to give all logged-in users the right to protect a page. My
understanding is that this setting does not impact who can edit a
protected page. It asks you for that when you protect the page, and I
tell it that I only want sysops to be able to edit the page, but it's
allowing anyone to edit the page if they're logged in despite the fact
that it shows a message on the edit screen saying that only sysops can
edit because it's protected. And when I edit a protected page as a sysop
or a logged-in user, it never forces me to unprotect the page.

Just to test, I commented out the line you listed below and this caused
the Protect tab to disappear for logged-in users that are not sysops,
which is not what I'm looking for.

I've found some listings on the web about the editprotect setting which
I have included below, but this doesn't seem to affect anything.

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['editprotected'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['editprotected'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['editprotected'] = true;

Mike Kingery
Director of Technical Services
Health Level Seven International
+1 (919) 636-4032


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Benjamin
Lees
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 8:34 AM
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Protect tab not working the way I expected

On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Michael Kingery (HL7)
<mkingery at hl7.org> wrote:
> No, I don't think it's not a wrong message, it's not working
correctly.
> It is correctly telling me that the page is protected; the problem is
> that it's still letting me edit the page despite that. It should stop
me
> from editing it because I'm not logged in as a sysop.

You gave all logged-in users the right to edit protected page with this
line:
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['protect'] = true;
Remove that line if that's not what you want.

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