Manual talk:Setting user groups in MediaWiki

Ok so far - but how do I set the rights for unregistered users. I do not want unregistered users to edit pages. Does sb know how?

Edit LocalSettings.php and look for the lines To only allow logged in edits change them to $wgWhitelistEdit = true; $wgWhitelistRead = false; $wgWhitelistAccount = array ( "user" => 1, "sysop" => 1, "developer" => 1 );
 * 1) $wgWhitelistEdit = false;
 * 2) $wgWhitelistRead = false;
 * 3) $wgWhitelistAccount = array ( "user" => 1, "sysop" => 1, "developer" => 1 );

That should work but I've never tried it myself.

This is not really in the wiki spirit ;-) - Tobin Richard

Thank you a lot! Yeah you're right, but my wiki will be used in a school... there are many people who would just love to see our school-wiki project collapsing.

wgWhitelistRead and categories
Karin van den Berg

I have set up a wiki to try it out and to keep track of all the documenting I do for my graduation project. So not a wiki in the wiki spirit, I'd rather not have my work plagiarized before I publish my thesis, so I tried to restrict access using $wgWhitelistRead = array ("Main Page", "Special:Userlogin", "Wikipedia:Help"); However, I noticed that using this method the subcategories and articles in a category that is linked on the mainpage are still shown (not the page content of the category though). But because I have some article names and such in the subcategories and the main category name is easily guessed, I wanted to restrict this too. I think that it would be logical that if you restrict access to certain pages, the categories that are restricted don't show their subcategories and articles.

Anyway, I edited includes/Parser.php as follows:

line 482 added: # Don't show subcategories and articles when category not in whitelist if ((!is_array( $wgWhitelistRead ) || (in_array( $name, $wgWhitelistRead) || 0 != $wgUser->getID )))

Before: {			# Don't show subcategories section if there are none. if ( count ( $children ) > 0 ) The End parenthesis ( i.e. } ) on line 605 before return $r

However, the $wgWhilelistRead array is not readable from this file apparently (making it global in this function doesn't help), so I had to copy the line from localsettings.php to above line 482 as stated here. Anyone have any idea how I can include the whitelist array without breaking something or going against mediawiki developer guidelines or something?

Adding a Sysop
Hi! Please help me. My web host installed MediaWiki for me, without creating a sysop. i tried to set the user rights of one of the usernames to 'sysop' according to the instructions on the content page, but without success. What i did was go to phpMyAdmin > the MediaWiki db and then run the SQL UPDATE instruction given on the content page. What did i do wrong or miss out?