Extension:CategoryControl2
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 Release status: stable |
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| Implementation | User rights |
| Description | Access control via group and category permissions. |
| Author(s) | JLTRYtalk |
| Latest version | 1.0.2 |
| MediaWiki | 1.34+ |
| License | Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial Share Alike 3.0 |
| Download | GitHub release v1.0.2 GitHub:
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The CategoryControl2 extension is meant to provide a very simple and flexible level of Per-Page Access Control by utilizing Categories and usergroups as the control method. It was based on CategoryControl extension (Kevin Kragenbrink, II) that is archived
Usage
[edit]Follow the Installation instructions below. Articles to be locked down should be added to a Category that has been specified in the $wgCategoryPermissions array. Users can then be added to the allowed groups using the standard mediawiki user rights management.
Download instructions
[edit]Please cut and paste the code found in GitHub release v1.0.2 and place it in $IP/extensions/CategoryControl2/CategoryControl.php.
Installation
[edit]To install this extension, add the following to LocalSettings.php:
wfLoadExtension( 'CategoryControl2');
Configuration parameters
[edit]The $wgCategoryPermissions variable is used to define permissions in groups for each category and action.
If no permissions are defined for a category and action, then permission handling falls back to the standard $wgGroupPermissions.
$wgCategoryPermissions['category']['*'][] = 'sysop'; // Sysops can do anything they want with this category.
$wgCategoryPermissions['category']['*'][] = 'bureaucrat'; // Bureaucrats can do anything they want with this category.
$wgCategoryPermissions['category']['read'] = array( 'newgroup', 'othergroup' ); // Users who are in both NewGroup and OtherGroup can read pages in this category.