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Reizer Gábor

23 Nov 2007 23 Nov '07

7:43 a.m.

Hi, I have different groups in my wiki. Rollback permission allows one-click reversion of edits. What is this about? What is the usage of this? How can I use this function? I tried to enable/disable this function, but I could not see any changes! I think if I change rollback permission to false -$wgGroupPermissions['Author']['rollback'] = false - , Authors can not view history. Because of this Authors can not undo changes - can not view related changes and after that can not edit and save an older version of the page. (Is it right?) But it is not work in my wiki. How can I disable rollback function? How can I disable rollback tab AND/OR related changes on Authors's pages? Best Regards, Gabor

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Thomas Dalton

23 Nov 23 Nov

10:33 a.m.

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I have different groups in my wiki. Rollback permission allows one-click reversion of edits. What is this about? What is the usage of this? How can I use this function? I tried to enable/disable this function, but I could not see any changes!

Rollback provides a link on history pages, contribution pages and diffs to undo an edit with just one click.

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I think if I change rollback permission to false -$wgGroupPermissions['Author']['rollback'] = false - , Authors can not view history. Because of this Authors can not undo changes - can not view related changes and after that can not edit and save an older version of the page. (Is it right?) But it is not work in my wiki.

I'm not aware of a way to prevent a group from viewing the history of a page, other than preventing them from reading the page altogether. What do you mean?

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How can I disable rollback function?

Set $wgGroupPermissions['whatever']['rollback'] = false for each usergroup. (It's false by default for all except sysop, I think - check DefaultChanges.php to be sure.)

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How can I disable rollback tab AND/OR related changes on Authors's pages?

I don't understand the question. What is a "related change"?

Reizer Gábor

26 Nov 26 Nov

3:26 a.m.

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Thanks for the answer! Related changes means Recent changes...sorry. So my last question is: How can I disable rollback tab AND/OR Recent changes on User's pages? 2007/11/23, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>om>:

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I have different groups in my wiki. Rollback permission allows one-click reversion of edits. What is this

about?

What is the usage of this? How can I use this function? I tried to enable/disable this function, but I could not see any changes!

Rollback provides a link on history pages, contribution pages and diffs to undo an edit with just one click.

I think if I change rollback permission to false -$wgGroupPermissions['Author']['rollback'] = false - , Authors can not view history. Because of this Authors can not undo

changes

- can not view related changes and after that can not edit and save an

older

version of the page. (Is it right?) But it is not work in my wiki.

I'm not aware of a way to prevent a group from viewing the history of a page, other than preventing them from reading the page altogether. What do you mean?

How can I disable rollback function?

Set $wgGroupPermissions['whatever']['rollback'] = false for each usergroup. (It's false by default for all except sysop, I think - check DefaultChanges.php to be sure.)

How can I disable rollback tab AND/OR related changes on Authors's

pages? I don't understand the question. What is a "related change"? _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Brianna Laugher

4:20 a.m.

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On 23/11/2007, Reizer Gábor <reizer.gabor(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Rollback.PNG People who have Rollback permission will see a Rollback link on Recent changes or any page's history tab. Rollback is only a short-cut for viewing an old revision and then saving the page as that old revision. Actually since "Undo" functionality was introduced it is more or less redundant. (Rollback is 1 click, Undo is 2 clicks. Also, Undo is only on page history.) If people can view old revisions, they will be able to save them, even if they just cut and paste. I don't think you can have a wiki and really stop people being able to "revert" (which is what I think you want to do?). cheers Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/

Reizer Gábor

5:07 a.m.

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I don't think you can have a wiki and really stop people being able to "revert" (which is what I think you want to do?).

Yes, I would like to stop people being able to "revert" changes. I would like to have Author and Editor groups: - Author can modify non locked pages + create new pages without viewing old revisions - Editor have Author rights + can modify locked pages + viewing old revisions and then saving the page Can I do that? Regards, Gabor 2007/11/26, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com>om>:

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On 23/11/2007, Reizer Gábor <reizer.gabor(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, I have different groups in my wiki. Rollback permission allows one-click reversion of edits. What is this

about?

What is the usage of this? How can I use this function? I tried to enable/disable this function, but I could not see any changes! I think if I change rollback permission to false -$wgGroupPermissions['Author']['rollback'] = false - , Authors can not view history. Because of this Authors can not undo

changes

- can not view related changes and after that can not edit and save an

older

version of the page. (Is it right?) But it is not work in my wiki.

Brianna Laugher

6:12 a.m.

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Using MediaWiki? I don't think so. Maybe you should look at a more standard CMS rather than a wiki engine. Brianna On 26/11/2007, Reizer Gábor <reizer.gabor(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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I don't think you can have a wiki and really stop people being able to "revert" (which is what I think you want to do?).

On 23/11/2007, Reizer Gábor <reizer.gabor(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, I have different groups in my wiki. Rollback permission allows one-click reversion of edits. What is this

about?

changes

- can not view related changes and after that can not edit and save an

older

version of the page. (Is it right?) But it is not work in my wiki.

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Thomas Dalton

8:45 a.m.

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On 26/11/2007, Reizer Gábor <reizer.gabor(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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I don't think you can have a wiki and really stop people being able to "revert" (which is what I think you want to do?).

At best, you can make it difficult for Authors to revert (and I don't think there's any built-in way to do that), but you can never stop them completely, since they can always undo the changes manually as a normal edit. It's probably possible to write an extension that hides old revisions, but it would make life very difficult for Authors, since they won't be able to find out what has changed on a page, so won't be able to help maintain them.

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