Manual talk:User rights

Special:Userrights limited to only Stewards

Special:Userrights is limited to only Stewards, which includes only two users. Shouldn't that link be open to everybody?

Heck no. --Sayuri 16:45, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

To Anonymous poster: That page serves only one purpose, to (un)assign user groups to users. If it's open to everybody, anybody could assign themselves sysop access. --Egingell 04:28, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

User rights names

Am I limited only to the names "sysop", "bot" and "bureaucrat" or can i make a new one? --Gerard armando 02:09, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

You can make a new one; Help:User rights#Managing groups gives an example of this by creating a "ninja" group. —Pathoschild 18:58:41, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

I made my own group, but when viewing it on a user's preference page it is not shown as a link, while groups like sysop or user are. Why is this?

Nevrmind -> Manual talk:$wgGroupPermissions#Link to groups.3F

Discussion Pages

I'm setting up a wiki so that registered user cannot edit pages, but would like them to be able to use the discussion page. Is that possible? 216.226.42.234 14:41, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Not currently, though it would be easy to add that feature if a developer chose to do so. —Pathoschild 06:07:29, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I think this is possible via the $wgNamespaceProtection setting. Just add the following settings to your LocalSettings.php file:

$wgGroupPermissions['approved']['editmain'] = true;
$wgNamespaceProtection[NS_MAIN] = array( 'editmain' );

This will only give those users who are part of the "approved" group the ability to edit the "main" namespace (but they can still edit the "talk" namespace). If you want to restrict other namespaces to editing by a single usergroup, you can add them as follows:

$wgNamespaceProtection[NS_USER] = array( 'editmain' );
$wgNamespaceProtection[NS_IMAGE] = array( 'editmain' );
// Etc...

I would like to do something similar, but I would like it so anyone can write in discussions but only registered users can edit and add articles. I tried to configure it but it says that you need both edit and createtalk turned to true for this to happen. Does anyone know the code to make this possible?- Thanks! Steve

--216.99.65.63 15:13, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

If you add the following to the LocalSettings.php file:

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit-main'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit-talk'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['edit-main'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['edit-talk'] = true;
$wgNamespaceProtection[NS_MAIN] = array( 'editmain' );
$wgNamespaceProtection[NS_USER] = array( 'editmain' );
$wgNamespaceProtection[NS_MEDIAWIKI] = array( 'editmain' );
$wgNamespaceProtection[NS_<WIKI-NAME>] = array( 'editmain' );
$wgNamespaceProtection[NS_HELP] = array( 'editmain' );
// plus any other namespaces you may have

you can restrict unregistered Users to editing discussion pages only and prevent them from editing articles.

Paul2387 13:41, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

User Editing Rights for just one page

I'm setting up a wiki where registered users can only edit their own page. How do you do that?

You can't do that by default, though it would probably be possible to use or write an extension. —Pathoschild 04:33:21, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Priority

I created a new user group in my wiki, let's call it "mods"·... but i want sysops to be able to manage them... i mean.. bureaucrats can edit bureaucrats, sysops and mods rights... sysops can edit sysops and mods rights, mods can only edit mods rights...

Example, protecting a page... I don't know if you get it.. how do i do it? --Gerard Armando 23:39, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Adding Users to a Group

There is a lot of talk about editing different user groups and such, but how does one add users to a specific group?

i.e. If I wanted to add a user to group 'ninja' ? Tablanch 22:29, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

The first sentence states: "...which can then be assigned to (or removed from) users through the Special:Userrights interface." —Pathoschild 02:53:01, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

I see. Feel free to slap me. Tablanch 13:24, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Propose move to manual

The help pages should document features for normal users, and sysops, but should not detail configuration variables. Information for server administrators belongs in the technical manual. That wasn't made clear before, but recently I've added some details to clarify the aim of the Help pages. See Project:PD help#Target readership - Normal users.

I know you're busy editing/maintaining this page Pathoschild. How would you feel about moving most of this. Perhaps put it on a new page "Manual:User rights"? There's also meta:Setting user rights in MediaWiki which maybe should be merged into a manual page here.

Harry Wood 15:52, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

I have no objections. Maybe we can merge the Meta page to a linked subpage like "Manual:User Rights/Deprecated", for MediaWiki prior to 1.5? I think adding it directly to the same page would add quite a bit of content without being relevant to most users. —Pathoschild 18:53:49, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Actually speaking of deprecated old info Help:User rights management seems to talk a lot about old MediaWiki versions. That page also needs to move/merge out of the Help namespace for the same reasons.

Anyway, so if that's OK, I'm going to go ahead with a move soon. Help:User rights -> Manual:User Rights

-- Harry Wood 19:53, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Oh. I was going to go ahead with the move (and all the corrections it will require... but actually Manual:User rights page name is 'occupied'. I thought I'd checked that, but no, there's redirect there at the moment, which a sysop user will have to delete before I can carry out the move. -- Harry Wood 14:54, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Deleted. --HappyDog 16:32, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. OK here goes! -- Harry Wood 17:01, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Clickable User-Right in Special:Listusers

Hello,

when i add the Ninja-Group (as an example from the Helppage), how can i manage the group is clickable on the page Special:Listusers like Project:Bureaucrats or Project:Administrators (Sysops)?
Thanks in advance
kind regards
TurboKanne, February, 9th, 2008.

See Manual talk:$wgGroupPermissions#Link to groups?. --Sayuri 22:43, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

::Thanks for this hint, but unfortunately this does not resolve my issue. The group "ninja" (for example) is still not clickable in Special:Listusers, only Bureauctrats and Administrators (behind the names) are clickable. Do you have any additional hint?

TurboKanne, February, 11th, 2008

After a couple of tests i found it only works within my wiki when i change the pages MediaWiki:Grouppage-Ninja and MediaWiki:Grouppage-ninja. Don't know why, but now it works.

TurboKanne, February, 15th, 2008

View source and history rights

It would be useful to have separate permissions for viewing page source and history pages. This would make it possible to prevent unregistered users from seeing anything but the current HTML version of the page, which would also have the benefit of preventing search engines and spam bots from accessing content (e.g. contact details) that have been hidden or deleted.

-- Keith Wilson 16:00, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

This is not the place for feature requests. Try filing a bug (severity: enhancement) on Bugzilla. —Simetrical (talk • contribs) 22:54, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

It would be enough to set a hook like

$wgHooks['PageHistoryBeforeList'][] = 'checkHistoryAllowed';

and check the user's rights in a personal function checkHistoryAllowed() - but even if the hook returns false or an error message, the history is still shown, because in PageHistory.php / HistoryPage.php the return value of wfRunHooks() is not checked. Why is that? --DocSnyder 19:24, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Only Confirmed mail can edit articles

Hi, i'm creating a new wiki right now. I want everybody be able to create and edit talk pages. But only users with an confirmed mail adress should be able to edit articles. (of course sysop and stuff should also be able to do that stuf....) I think if i set 'edit' to false for everybody else they can't edit talk pages, or at least i can't find a setting like 'edit_talk' or somethin. Somebody can point me to the right direction for this? --78.51.99.40 01:42, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

New user rights: what version are they for?

The following was added to the bottom of the page on June 8, 2008 [1]:

#$wgGroupPermissions['suppress']['hideuser'] = true;
// To hide revisions/log items from users and Sysops
#$wgGroupPermissions['suppress']['suppressrevision'] = true;
// For private suppression log access
#$wgGroupPermissions['suppress']['suppressionlog'] = true;

Shouldn't these user rights be added to the list, and what version of mediawiki are these user rights available for? thanks Odessaukrain 03:24, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Permissions to be documented?

I see the following permissions on various sites. The meaning of some is obvious, but they are not documented here. Are they custom permissions?

• boardvote
• browsearchive
• centralauth-admin
• centralauth-merge
• checkuser
• hiderevision
• makebot
• makesysop
• noratelimit
• nuke
• override-antispoof
• oversight
• renameuser
• reupload-own
• skipcaptcha
• tboverride
• torunblocked
• uboverride

Renate 14:42, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

• boardvote
• browsearchive lets you do a search of deleted pages when you visit Special:Undelete
• centralauth-admin, centralauth-merge
• checkuser
• hiderevision has been replaced by suppressrevision (they do the same thing)
• makebot
• makesysop
• not quite sure what noratelimit does... probably has to do with the API
• nuke
• override-antispoof
• oversight
• renameuser
• reupload-own allows you to upload new versions of images that you originally have uploaded
• skipcaptcha
• tboverride
• torunblocked
• uboverride

The linked ones are extension-defined and the links go to their extension pages :). I'll get around to documenting all the ones that need it later today. --Skizzerz 14:58, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Creating a group

I think it'd be important to note how to create a custom group. Simply creating an entry in the array may not be straightforward to all people. And I would've never thought of initializing it using the assignment operator:

$wgGroupPermissions['mygroup'] = $wgGroupPermissions['user'];

This was necessary to deny all users from the wiki and allow specific groups. I'm just not quite sure where to fit it in the current manual page.

--Dandin1 19:32, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

You took the words right out of my mouth! I just posted the following on Wikimedia's Help_talk:User_rights page before I saw that the help page had been moved here:

----

I've been a wiki user for years, and a few years ago I set up and administered wikis for my department. Now I've been put in charge of running a new, public wiki. The Systems people have installed it --

• MediaWiki 1.12.0
• PHP 5.2.6-1+lenny3 (apache2handler)
• MySQL 5.0.51a-24+lenny1

-- and made me a bureaucrat and a sysop, and now I'm trying to come up to speed. I'm working with the MediaWiki Handbook and LocalSettings.php, but there's a lot that I can't find.

Right now my question is: How do I create more groups? This wiki is meant to be world-readable, but people will have to request authorization to write to it, and there are to be separate sections with separate write authorization. I thought I'd be able to do that with groups and namespaces -- group A can write to namespace A, group B to namespace B, ... -- but all I can find is

You can add users to these groups: bot, sysop and bureaucrat.

You can remove users from these groups: bot, sysop and bureaucrat.

I can't find word one about creating new groups, even though I see numerous groups on this wiki here.

Is it doable? Is there a hole in the documentation? Do I need to ask our Systems folks to do something?

----

Dandin1, it looks from your answer as if this is a Systems job. But I'd like to hear it for sure.

Thnidu 23:29, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Editable talk/discussion pages

Is it possible to enable user edits only on discussion and talk pages, but not on actual articles? Or would this require a custom extension?

I managed to do it by patching like this :

includes/Title.php : add the following line at the very beginning of public function userCan and private function getUserPermissionsErrorsInternal :

if (($action == 'edit') && ($this->isTalkPage())) $action = 'edittalk';

includes/EditPage.php :

replace the following line :

if ( !$wgUser->isAllowed('edit') ) {

by the following :

if ( (( !$this->mTitle->isTalkPage()) && ( !$wgUser->isAllowed('edit'))) ||  (( $this->mTitle->isTalkPage()) && ( !$wgUser->isAllowed('edittalk'))) ) {

now you have a new right to use in LocalSettings.php : edittalk. Here is an example :

$wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['edittalk'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['createtalk'] = true;

move-rootuserpages... what is a root user page?

Hey all, I am a little weak on the concept of what is a 'root page'. I did a search and did not find this well explained anywhere. As a result I am unsure whether I want all users to be able to 'move-rootuserpages' or not.

Maybe a glossary section should be added to the Manual?

Action=raw

My wiki is closed to anonimous. I use external script which needs action=raw. But if I use $wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false; I have no access to action=raw. How can I make such preferencies to create free rights for action=raw??? --Андрей Краснобаев 16:57, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

The script must be autheticated. Max Semenik 16:59, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

The idea is clear for me, but I'm not very skilled in php(( --Андрей Краснобаев 10:24, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Then use pre-existing code. Max Semenik 10:27, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your answer! I send you the letter.--Андрей Краснобаев 11:02, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

sendemail

There seems to be a 'sendemail' right that doesn't seem documented. I would have added it to the table if I had figured out where it should have been inserted (it's obviously not editing, nor is it management). Coren 03:59, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

Where are you seeing this right, and what version of MediaWiki are you using? Also, are you sure that it isn't added by an extension? --Skizzerz 19:28, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

I apparently fail at searching through files. Anyway, I'd think that the 'sendemail' right would likely go under the Technical category since it kinda fits in with some of the other things. --Skizzerz 19:31, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

User Group rights

I have disabled all the rights for non registered users and set the white list only to the special:userlogin page. But they can still see all the pages. It doesn't seem to work.

delete pages / reupload files only without category entry

I have a problem to delete pages or reupload file if the page or file are in a category. If I delete the category entry first it is posible to delete or reupload. I have this problem as user and admn. What is wrong with my user rights? --Dirk M 20:01, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

editusercssjs

That right was split in editusercss and edituserjs in 1.16; I don't know how to properly add that to the table, though. --80.228.214.184 01:21, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Examples : emailconfirmed

What's the difference between the following example provided on this page and the result of Manual:$wgEmailConfirmToEdit = true;?

This example will disable editing of all pages, then re-enable for users with confirmed e-mail addresses only:

# Disable for everyone.
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit']              = false;
# Disable for users, too: by default 'user' is allowed to edit, even if '*' is not.
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['edit']           = false;
# Make it so users with confirmed e-mail addresses are in the group.
$wgAutopromote['emailconfirmed'] = APCOND_EMAILCONFIRMED;
# Hide group from user list. 
$wgImplicitGroups[] = 'emailconfirmed';
# Finally, set it to true for the desired group.
$wgGroupPermissions['emailconfirmed']['edit'] = true;

-- Matsch 12:50, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Three-tier bureaucrat system

I want to create three tiers of bureaucrats:

• Benefactor — can add or remove captain, lieutenant or sysop user rights
• Captain — can add or remove lieutenant or sysop user rights
• Lieutenant — can add or remove sysop user rights

How does one do this? I tried and failed. Leucosticte (talk) 08:10, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

I'm not sure that the = operator can be used sequentially like that. Try declaring $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups for each group separately.--Jasper Deng (talk) 04:20, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks; there were some other issues involved too, so I documented how to do it at Manual:Establishing a hierarchy of bureaucrats. Leucosticte (talk) 22:01, 11 September 2012 (UTC)