Manual talk:User rights

Discuss Help:User rights page here:

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 gives an example of this by creating a "ninja" group. — Pathoschild 18:58:41, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

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:

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:

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)

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.

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 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)