Manual talk:$wgWhitelistRead

What does the parameter "-" mean?

Does somebody know what page the parameter "-" refers to? See code below:

$wgWhitelistRead = array( "Special:Userlogin", "-", "MediaWiki:Monobook.css" );

--Candidia 21:25, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi I just asked in the IRC and got the following response from user nekudayims: used to be a special page that loaded user CSS/JS customizations and such. Thus this is superseded starting with 1.17.+ Cheers --[[kgh]] 19:50, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

non ascii characters

Hi,

How do you manage to get somes pages in $wgWhitelistRead with non ascii characters, like é, à etc. When setting up a MW1.8.2, adding "Actualités" to $wgWhitelistRead does not work, as well as Actualit%C3%A9s or Actualites.

Thank you for your help Florent

"Actualités" should work (the others don't) - but you have to make sure you save the LocalSettings.php file as UTF-8, not in Latin-1 or whatever is the default on your system. Note that when saving as UTF-8, some editors may insert invisible characters, as so called BOM, at the start of the file - which will confuse PHP and lead to "headers already sent" warnings. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 11:20, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

add help namespace

How can I add the whole help-namespace to the whitelist? I want anonymous users to be able to see the startpage, the loggin page and the articles in the help namespace.

Look at WhitelistedNamespaces, an extension that allows you to do just that. --Lhridley 07:07, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

other language setting

If you have change the default language in wgLanguageCode = "XX"; from en to an other language you must take change the name of the site for userlogin.

In english special:UserLogin

In german spezial:UserLogin

I hope, it will help

$wgWhitelistRead isn't working

I copied some Localsettings code from this site, and for the longest time I couldn't get $wgWhitelistRead or $wgWhitelistEdit to work

$wgWhitelistRead[] = array( "Special:Connect", "Special:Userlogin", "Special:Userlogout" );

I just found the problem, however, and figured I would document it here in case this problem trips up anyone else. The line of code should read:

$wgWhitelistRead = array( "Special:Connect", "Special:Userlogin", "Special:Userlogout" );
## (no [])

Gbruin 21:37, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

This was rectified in the meantime. Thank you for your hint. Cheers --[[kgh]] 19:41, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Multiple Lines

I've got a long list of pages (about 30) to white list. (How) Can I break up this list over multiple lines? --Robinson Weijman 07:45, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Answering my own question - the return character works well! Just like this:

"one", "two", "three",

"four", "five"

Obvious, really. --Robinson Weijman 08:14, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Read only?

Is there a way to whitelist a page for editing as well as reading? Say, if I have a wiki that permits editing by only logged in users, but I want certain pages to be editable by anyone regardless of whether or not they are a registered user? Fordmadoxfraud 23:28, 9 January 2011 (UTC)