Extension:AuthorProtect

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AuthorProtect

Release status: stable

Implementation User rights, Page action
Description Allows the author of a page to protect it from other users
Author(s) Ryan Schmidt (Skizzerz Talk)
Version 1.0
MediaWiki 1.11+
Download Subversion
Readme
Changelog
Added rights author, authorprotect
Hooks used

UserGetRights
SkinTemplateContentActions
UnknownAction
userCan

Contents

[edit] Usage

This extension allows page authors to protect pages from non-authors on a page-by-page basis. Authors with the 'authorprotect' permission will gain a protect tab on pages they author that gives them access to this interface. Because logs and anonymous users don't mix very well (as with the fact that all anonymous users share the same user id), anonymous users are unable to use this extension regardless of if they have the 'authorprotect' right or not.

Warning Warning: Do not assign the author right via GroupPermissions (except to those who you want to be able to edit author-protected pages)! This right is automatically assigned to the author of the page. Assigning this right via $wgGroupPermissions gives that group the ability to edit all author-protected pages, regardless of if they are the author of the page or not.

[edit] Download instructions

Please download the code from Subversion and put it in $IP/extensions/AuthorProtect/AuthorProtect.php and $IP/extensions/AuthorProtect/AuthorProtect.i18n.php. Note: $IP stands for the root directory of your MediaWiki installation, the same directory that holds LocalSettings.php.

[edit] Installation

To install this extension, add the following to LocalSettings.php:

require_once("$IP/extensions/AuthorProtect/AuthorProtect.php");

[edit] Changelog

Version 1.0
First stable release. Moved code to subversion repository.
Version 0.1
Initial beta release. Has not been tested at all as of yet. Unless you want to test this extension, do not install this version.

[edit] See also

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