Mailing List Archive: Log-in only?

Log-in only?

Aug 5, 2004, 8:47 PM

Post #1 of 4 (1007 views)

Is it possible to modify MediaWiki so that people *must* be logged in
to edit?

Note: Thanks to everyone, especially Brion, who helped with my URL
forwarding issues. I was able to resolve them by reconfiguring my host,
rather than messing with the MediaWiki code itself. In the process I
learned a lot about how DNS works! There isn't much on the wiki yet,
but now I can focus on content!

Cheers,

kerim
http://wiki.oxus.net/

Re: Log-in only? [ In reply to ]

mme2002 at earthlink

Aug 5, 2004, 10:20 PM

Post #2 of 4 (983 views)

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It's this code in LocalSettings.php - we have ours set the way you're
talking about:

## Configured so anyone can browse, only those with accounts can edit,
and only the
## WikiSysop can create new accounts (change developer to 1 if you want
anyone with
## an account to be able to create other accounts)

$wgWhitelistEdit = true;
$wgWhitelistRead = false;
$wgWhitelistAccount = array ( "user" => 0, "sysop" => 1, "developer" =>
0 );

Michelle

On Aug 5, 2004, at 8:47 PM, P. Kerim friedman wrote:

> Is it possible to modify MediaWiki so that people *must* be logged in
> to edit?
>

Re: Log-in only? [ In reply to ]

kerim.mail at oxus

Aug 6, 2004, 5:43 AM

Post #3 of 4 (989 views)

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Michelle,

Thanks! Turns out the first line is all that I need. I believe the
third line, the way you have it set up, means that only people with
SysOp privileges can edit pages, which is a higher level of protection
than I (currently) need.

Cheers,

kerim

On Aug 6, 2004, at 1:20 AM, Michelle wrote:

> It's this code in LocalSettings.php - we have ours set the way you're
> talking about:
>
> ## Configured so anyone can browse, only those with accounts can edit,
> and only the
> ## WikiSysop can create new accounts (change developer to 1 if you
> want anyone with
> ## an account to be able to create other accounts)
>
> $wgWhitelistEdit = true;
> $wgWhitelistRead = false;
> $wgWhitelistAccount = array ( "user" => 0, "sysop" => 1, "developer"
> => 0 );
>
> Michelle
>
> On Aug 5, 2004, at 8:47 PM, P. Kerim friedman wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to modify MediaWiki so that people *must* be logged in
>> to edit?
>>
>
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Re: Log-in only? [ In reply to ]

kerim.mail at oxus

Aug 6, 2004, 5:52 AM

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Sorry, I see your notes explain that the third line is about who can
create accounts. (Once I got your message I had looked in
DefaultSettings.php where it isn't clearly explained at present.) I
also (finally!) found the Meta page where all this is laid out very
clearly:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Setting_user_rights_in_MediaWiki

Sometimes you have to know what you are looking for before you can find
it!

Cheers,

kerim

On Aug 6, 2004, at 8:43 AM, P. Kerim friedman wrote:

> Michelle,
>
> Thanks! Turns out the first line is all that I need. I believe the
> third line, the way you have it set up, means that only people with
> SysOp privileges can edit pages, which is a higher level of protection
> than I (currently) need.
>
> Cheers,
>
> kerim
>
> On Aug 6, 2004, at 1:20 AM, Michelle wrote:
>
>> It's this code in LocalSettings.php - we have ours set the way you're
>> talking about:
>>
>> ## Configured so anyone can browse, only those with accounts can
>> edit, and only the
>> ## WikiSysop can create new accounts (change developer to 1 if you
>> want anyone with
>> ## an account to be able to create other accounts)
>>
>> $wgWhitelistEdit = true;
>> $wgWhitelistRead = false;
>> $wgWhitelistAccount = array ( "user" => 0, "sysop" => 1, "developer"
>> => 0 );
>>
>> Michelle
>>
>> On Aug 5, 2004, at 8:47 PM, P. Kerim friedman wrote:
>>
>>> Is it possible to modify MediaWiki so that people *must* be logged
>>> in to edit?
>>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> MediaWiki-l mailing list
>> MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org
>> http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> MediaWiki-l mailing list
> MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org
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>