Extension talk:Lockdown
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Locking down diffs
[edit]To deal with some unruly and disruptive crawlers, I've blocked unregistered user access to history, but is there a way to also block access to diffs? (Even though history is blocked, diffs are still accessible by going directly to the URL.) Thanks for any suggestions! Huwmanbeing (talk) 12:56, 26 September 2025 (UTC)
- Oh, just found Extension:CrawlerProtection which accomplishes this. Huwmanbeing (talk) 12:48, 29 September 2025 (UTC)
Lockdown version in Special not updating
[edit]Hello,
I recently went to apply the Lockdown extension version patch as noted here: MediaWiki Extensions and Skins Security Release Supplement (1.39.14/1.43.4/1.44.1) - MediaWiki-announce - lists.wikimedia.org
I am on the following version(s):
PHP-FPM 8.4
MW 1.43.5
Apache 2.4.37-65
I see the noted version of Lockdown is 1.43.4, but will it reflect the ...
cat extensions/Lockdown/version
Lockdown: REL1_43
2025-06-14T22:14:48
7ac8966
... if the MW version is 1.43.5? The UI seems to continue showing the
– (977cfa5)16:17, 23 November 2024
despite having $wgMainCacheType = CACHE_NONE; applied. Also commenting/uncommenting the extension in LocalSettings.php, as well as trying an incognito browser, bouncing PHP-FPM and Apache. Alongaks (talk) 19:01, 30 October 2025 (UTC)
- Seems to have resolved, though I'm not sure precisely why. Went back to one of my MW sites with the patched extension since this post and now the version is showing correctly in Special.
- Suppose it was some cache that aged out, despite having the same result in incognito/InPrivate browser loads. Alongaks (talk) 14:51, 7 November 2025 (UTC)