On Jan 29, 2007, at 1:33 PM, Steve Sanbeg wrote:
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:05:51 -0500, Jim Hu wrote:
There was some discussion on one of the mailing
lists about
protecting specific sections in a wiki page, where Rob Church noted
an extension called ProtectSection.php. I have modified the code to
run one of the functions at a different hook, which allows me to also
kill any subsection Edit links on headings inside a protected
section. I have it working on 1.8.3 and 1.7.1 locally.
I noticed that ProtectSection in svn has been modified by tstarling
and hashar (tstarling says "It's still completely broken with
section editing, though." ... but it seems to work for me, unless I'm
misunderstanding the issue. Also, if the section edit links are
gone, the issue may be moot.). How should I submit the code
modification for others to look at? I wasn't sure if this should go
to bugzilla bug 4375 or here. I hope that my code modification may
be worth looking at, but I worry that it's too hacky to warrant
consideration yet for the topic of the bug.
It's better to post patches via bugzilla, but things can also be
discussed
on the list or on IRC.
The edit links point to URLs to edit the individual sections. without
those links, you'd have to type in the URL yourself in the browser,
which
would make it slightly more difficult to edit the sections.
The thing to be careful of is that Mediawiki isn't really intended
to have
that level of protection, but people who aren't as familiar with it
could
mistake a casual deterent for real security.
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I modified my mod to only take the links out if the users are
unauthorized, and uploaded it as an attachment to bugzilla.
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4375
Thanks for catching that, Steve. I'm don't know if it's appropriate
for wikipedia or other foundation projects, but it seems that other
mediawiki users would find it useful, based on the votes and the
earlier thread. For my own use, I'll be running cron jobs to
maintain boxes that are quoted content from other sources. We want
people commenting on that content, but not changing is, since the
changes would not be reflected in the original source material.
Jim
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