[Mediawiki-l] Re: Permissions

Thu Dec 22 05:17:26 UTC 2005

> From: "Mauro do Carmo" <mauro at carmo.ws>

> My Projet tends to use open editing philosophy to every one.  
> However, I want
> to do that gradually.
>
> For now, I have restricted the editing option to only registered  
> members by
> adding this $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit']=false;
>
> I am looking for restricting the access to create a new account...

This is what I use for that purpose:

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

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