Extension:EditOwn
From MediaWiki.org
 Release status: beta |
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|---|---|
| Implementation | Hook |
| Description | Unprivileged users can only edit pages they've created themselves |
| Author(s) | Roan Kattouw |
| Version | 1.0 (October 22, 2007) |
| MediaWiki | 1.11 |
| Download | SVN |
| Added rights | editall |
| Hooks used | |
EditOwn is an extension that prevents unprivileged users from editing pages they haven't created. Privileged users can of course edit every page.
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[edit] Installation
Create a new directory called "EditOwn" (without the quotes) in your wiki's extensions/ directory. Download the EditOwn.php and EditOwn.i18n.php files from SVN and place them in the newly created directory. Then add the following to the bottom of LocalSettings.php:
require_once("$IP/extensions/EditOwn/EditOwn.php"); $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['editall'] = true; // Only sysops can edit all pages
Then go to your wiki's Special:Version to verify the installation.
[edit] Permissions
You will probably want to allow some users to edit all pages. To set this up, two approaches are possible:
[edit] Using existing groups
Add any of the following lines to LocalSettings.php to allow existing groups of users to edit all pages:
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['editall'] = true; // Allow *everyone*, including anonymous users, to edit all pages. This makes this extension useless $wgGroupPermissions['user']['editall'] = true; // Registered users can edit all pages. The usefulness of this setting is also doubtful $wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['editall'] = true; // Only users older than $wgAutoConfirmAge can edit all pages $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['editall'] = true; // Only sysops can edit all pages. This is the recommended setup $wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['editall'] = true; // Only bureaucrats can edit all pages
If you have created any custom groups in LocalSettings.php, you can allow these groups to edit all pages by adding
$wgGroupPermissions['groupname']['editall'] = true;
to LocalSettings.php (replace 'groupname' with the name of your custom group).
NOTE: If a user is in multiple groups, they will be able to edit all pages even if that's allowed for only one of those groups. E.g.: if group A can't edit all pages but group B can, a user in both group A and B will be allowed to edit all pages.
[edit] Creating a new group
You can also create a separate group for users who can edit all pages. To do this, add the following line to LocalSettings.php:
$wgGroupPermissions['editall']['editall'] = true;
This creates a new group named 'editall'. Only users in that group can edit all pages. You can add users to the editall group using the Special:Userrights special page.
[edit] Excluding namespaces
You may want to disable EditOwn's functionality for certain namespaces. To do this, add the following line to LocalSettings.php, below the line added earlier (require_once("$IP/extensions/EditOwn/EditOwn.php");):
$wgEditOwnExcludedNamespaces = array(NS_TALK, NS_USER, NS_USER_TALK);
This will disable EditOwn for the Talk, User and User talk namespaces. A list of all namespace constants can be found here.
[edit] Licensing and downloads
The extension is available under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later, and can be downloaded from Subversion, or accessed via the web-based viewer.
The software is provided as-is. Updates will be made where critical vulnerabilities are discovered.
[edit] Contact
EditOwn is currently maintained by Roan Kattouw. If you have any questions, complaints, feature requests, found a bug, or any other reason to contact the maintainer, please send your e-mails to roan.kattouw@home.nl and mention "EditOwn" in the subject.
