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New user rights management in MediaWiki 1.5

Submitted by mike on Sat, 2006-04-15 13:39

User rights management was very limited in MediaWiki 1.4 and below. The model has been extended to a full-blown user and group rights management in MediaWiki 1.5 and greater, accessible under Special:userrights. The new model allows to define groups and attribute fine-grained access control to the wiki.

The sipX-Wikis are configured to allow editing for logged-in users only. This both helps to protect from spam and makes it possible to attribute content to a user. The following settings are currently configured in LocalSettings.php:

$wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['createaccount'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['read'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['edit'] = false;

$wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['move'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['read'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['edit'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['upload'] = true;

Additionally, the display of the IP-address while not logged-in has been suppressed (along with the corresponding Talk page).

$wgShowIPinHeader = false;

Related links:

  • MediaWiki help: User rights