We did indeed disable all non-view actions for people who aren't Users, so
that includes raw.
We didn't disable Special:Expandtemplates, so thanks for pointing that out!
The API is indeed disabled.
I thought about doing the proxy thing but that was starting to be a lot of
trouble. We might have to tear open whatever file the parameters are in and
hack apart Diff there, if there's no other way.
On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 3:01 AM, Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Honestly, at that point, you'd probably be better
setting up some sort
of proxy thing, where non-logged in users view some sort of proxy that
only proxies the page view (not allowing any url parameters through or
viewing any special pages), and logged in users actually deal with MW.
The biggest thing you missed is probably ?action=raw .
Special:Expandtemplates is also another vector (via {{msgnw:page name
here}}). I assume you've also disabled the api.
There's probably a lot of others. MediaWiki is not designed to hide
the wikitext source of pages.
--
Brian
On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 7:01 AM, Drium Yrvak <driumyrvak(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all!
I'm helping set up a Mediawiki for a site. Unfortunately, it's in a
fairly
drama-filled environment, where plagiarism is so
common as to make us
feel
that we'd like to protect how we did certain
things. Our wiki uses a lot
of
SQL integration and took a while to set up, and
other wikis in the hobby
don't use SQL a lot. To make a long story short, we want to prevent those
competing sites from just copypasting our SQL code and
reverse-engineering
how we did things from that. If they want to
figure it out on their own
they certainly can, but we don't want people to just take our code.
Luckily, by virtue of how the site is handled, the wiki doesn't allow
anyone but the administrators to make or edit pages. That means we
disabled
account creation, and to protect certain pages
(like history and view
source) using the Lockdown extension, we simply restricted their access
to
the Users group.
Sadly, it's still possible to catch the wiki code of our pages using the
Diff parameter, and no doubt few other pages. We disabled Special:Export
and Special:Compare, for example. But using any page that lists edits,
like
Recent Changes, people can just compare two old
versions of a page and
see
the raw wiki code.
How would one go about preventing access to the Diff parameter unless
they're a User? Are there other ways to grab the raw wiki source code we
should know about?
I know this is against Mediawiki's usual open source policy. I apologize!
But if you could still help it'd be greatly appreciated.
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