Extension:Require Editor Privilege

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Require Editor Privilege Extension Release status: unknown
Implementation	User rights
Description	Two new user groups are introduced: Readers can read any article that a user could read in a standard wiki, Editors can do anything a user could do in a standard wiki.
Author(s)	Xypron
Last version	1.4 (24th December, 2011)
License	GPLv3
Download	[https://sourceforge.net/projects/reqedpriv/
Parameters $xyAllowAnonymousRead, $xyAllowUserRead
Hooks used SiteNoticeAfter
Check usage (experimental)

MediaWiki knows groups that can be given certain privileges:

• Bureaucrats
• Sysops
• Bots
• Logged on user with verified email address
• Logged on user with suffciently old account
• Logged on user
• Anonymous user

If editing shall be restricted to trusted users this is not possible. Furthermore it is not possible to restrict reading to trusted users which might be necessary when using MediaWiki for sensitive information.

What does this extension do?

Two new user groups are introduced:

• Readers can read any article that a user could read in a standard wiki.
• Editors can do anything a user could do in a standard wiki.

You can grant read authorization to anonymous users with:

$xyAllowAnonymousRead = true;

You can grant read authorization to logged on users with:

$xyAllowUserRead      = true;

The Main Page is readable by any user, to allow creation of user accounts.

require_once('extensions/xyRequireEditorPrivilege.php');

Installation

• Copy the script below with UTF8 encoding to extensions/xyRequireEditorPrivilege.php.
• For additional language support You may amend the script (English and German already contained.)
• Add the following lines to LocalSettings.php:

// Allow anonymous users to read?
$xyAllowAnonymousRead = false;
// Allow logged on users without reader privileges to read?
$xyAllowUserRead      = false; 
require_once('extensions/ReqEdPriv/ReqEdPriv.php');