Extension:Talkright

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Talkright Release status: stable
Implementation	User rights
Description	Makes the editing of talk pages a distinct action from article editing.
Author(s)	P Leveque, Marc Noirot, James Montalvo
Last version	1.4.1 (2013-05-06)
MediaWiki	1.19+
Database changes	No
License	GPL v2+
Download	see below
Added rights talk
Hooks used AlternateEdit ParserBeforeStrip
Check usage and version matrix

The Talkright extension makes the editing of talk pages a distinct action from the editing of articles to create finer permissions, by adding the talk right.

Usage

On a semi private wiki, a user can be allowed to read but not to edit the content of a page as well as its talk page. This is done by setting:

$wgGroupPermissions['user']['read'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['edit'] = false;

Now, if you want to encourage comments to your wiki from a group of persons, by giving them rights to edit the talk pages only, you need to install this Talkright extension and to add, for example, the following two lines:

$wgGroupPermissions['commentators']['edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['commentators']['talk'] = true;

Installation

• Obtain the code and extract the files in a directory called "Talkright" in your extensions/ folder.
• Add the following code to your LocalSettings.php (at the bottom)

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

• Done – Navigate to "Special:Version" on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Code

MediaWiki 1.19.x and 1.20.x

Tested with MW 1.20.2 - skins: Vector, monobook

<?php
/**
 * Talkright MediaWiki extension
 * @author Marc Noirot - marc dot noirot at gmail
 * @author P.Levêque - User:Phillev
 * @author James Montalvo - User:Jamesmontalvo3
 *
 * This extension makes the editing of talk pages a distinct action from
 * the editing of articles, to create finer permissions by adding the 'talk' right.
 *
*/
 
if ( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
        die( 'This file is an extension to MediaWiki and thus not a valid entry point.' );
}
 
$wgExtensionCredits['other'][] = array(
    'name' => 'TalkRight',
    'version' => '1.4.1',
    'author' => array('P.Lev&ecirc;que', 'Marc Noirot', 'James Montalvo'),
    'description' => 'Adds a <code>talk</code> permission independent from article edition',
    'url' => 'https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Talkright',
);
 
# Register hooks
$wgHooks['AlternateEdit'][] = 'TalkRight::alternateEdit';
$wgHooks['ParserBeforeStrip'][] = 'TalkRight::giveEditRightsWhenViewingTalkPages';
 
# Global 'talk' right
$wgAvailableRights[] = 'talk';
 
class TalkRight {
 
    /**
     * Bypass edit restriction when EDITING pages if user has 'talk' right and page is a talk (discussion) page.
     * @param $&editPage the page edition object
     * @return true to resume edition to normal operation
     */
    static function alternateEdit( $editPage ) {
        global $wgOut, $wgUser, $wgRequest, $wgTitle;
        if ( $wgTitle->isTalkPage() && $wgUser->isAllowed( 'talk' ) ) {
            array_push( $wgUser->mRights, 'edit' );
        }
        return true;
    }
 
    /**
     * Bypass edit restriction when VIEWING pages if user has 'talk' right and page is a talk (discussion) page.
         * This is probably not the ideal hook to use. I just needed one earlier than creation of section links, edit tab and add topic tab
     * @param &$parser parser object, used to gain access to User and Title objects
         * @param &$text unused
         * @param &$strip_state unused
     * @return true and false both seemed to work. [[Manual:Hooks/ParserBeforeStrip]] doesn't indicate what return value affects
     */    
    static function giveEditRightsWhenViewingTalkPages ( &$parser, &$test, &$test ) {
 
        $user = $parser->getUser();
        if ( $parser->getTitle()->isTalkPage() && $user->isAllowed( 'talk' ) ) {
            array_push( $user->mRights, 'edit' );            
        }
 
        return true;
    }
 
}

History

Date	Version	Notes
06 May 2013	Version 1.4.1	updated for MW1.19. added new topic and edit section link.
24 November 2011	Version 1.3	No need to modify 'includes/SkinTemplate.php' to edit "view source" button.
05 August 2008	Version 1.1	Added credits for MediaWiki version 1.12, 1.13.
20 June 2006	Version 1.0.1	Added credits and extension version information.
07 June 2006	Version 1.0	First release.

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