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 Thus this is superseded starting with 1.17.+ Cheers --&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93; 19:50, 12 August 2011 (UTC)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)


 * In current versions that is possible without any extension - use $wgWhitelistReadRegexp for this! --87.123.55.67 20:13, 21 April 2016 (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" );
 * 1) (no [])

Gbruin 21:37, 25 January 2009 (UTC)


 * This was rectified in the meantime. Thank you for your hint. Cheers --&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93; 19:41, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Edit: I am deploying my first wiki and discovered that whitelisting wasn't working for me. As it turns out, if you have "$wgShowIPInHeader" set to false, the whitelist does not function. Removing that line fixes it.

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)


 * Indirectly maybe: There is $wgNamespaceProtection, which allows to protect a complete namespace. If you then allow certain pages to be unprotected, this might give the desired result. --87.123.55.67 20:06, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Whitelisting Page and Subpages
Is there a way for subpages of a whitelisted page to automatically assume the whitelisted status of their parent page?

I have an access controlled wiki and would like to make certain pages visible/accessible without an account/login and being able to bin them beneath a single whitelisted page would be a boon.
 * See $wgWhitelistReadRegexp! --87.123.55.67 20:11, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Allow anonymus user to use the search
My settings are as follows…

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false;

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false;

$wgWhitelistRead = array(

… while anonymus readers can see the whitelistet pages properly, they CANNOT USE THE SEARCH, which is kind of an odd experience for the user of a wiki.

How can I permit anonymus users to use the search?


 * Just add the search page to $wgWhitelistRead! --87.123.55.67 20:05, 21 April 2016 (UTC)