[Mediawiki-l] Locking "Templates" pages?
Rob Church
robchur at gmail.com
Tue Jun 20 00:56:42 UTC 2006
On 19/06/06, Ken McDonald <ken at pixologic.com> wrote:
> I'm aware that there is no standard mechanism for assigning particular
> access privileges based on namespace (we don't really want to use one of
> the custom plugins unless it's pretty sure it will end up in the next
> version of MW), but is there any "good" (semi-approved) way to
> write-protect this particular namespace?
Use the hook in Title::userCan(), check against the namespace and
$wgUser->isAllowed(); add custom permissions via an extension.
This can probably be done fairly reliably; it's restricting reading
that's the bigger problem.
Rob Church
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