Topic on Extension talk:Lockdown

Hello, what's the right way to restrict the right to create a page in the Project-namespace (NS_PROJECT) to a certain group, but allow all other to edit them.

I tried this:

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = true;
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_PROJECT]['createpage'] = array('sysop');

But it wont work. Still every logged in user can create pages in the project namespace.

Did you ever get this to work?

Hmm... , I do not think this can be done since action "edit" includes action "createpage" (some sort of "rights inheritance"). However, I may still be proven wrong.

I found a way using the Extension AbuseFilter with the following Filter and the "disallow" action:

(page_namespace = 0) &

(old_wikitext == "") &

!( 'sysop' in user_rights ) & !contains_any(added_lines, "redirect")

It is certainly not perfect and notifies the user only after hitting "save", but it works.

I am trying to do something similar and indeed it does not seem to work. I want only members of a certain group to be able to create pages on the main namespace, but allow everyone else to edit those pages once they exist.

Here is what I tried:

$wgGroupPermissions['user']['createpage'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['creator']['createpage'] = true;
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown['*']['createpage'] = array('user');
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_MAIN]['createpage'] = array('creator');

But it does not work. All users can still create pages on the Main Namespace, even if they are not members of the 'creator' group.

Too bad....