Topic on Extension talk:Lockdown

I was having problem with locking down certain special pages based on user groups with Lockdown on MW 1.17 and 1.16. Here is a solution that doesn't need Lockdown at all, just enter this in your LocalSettings.php:

function SpecialPageBlock(&$list){
global $wgUser;
if (in_array('sysop', $wgUser->getGroups()) == 0){
foreach(array('Uncategorizedimages','Unusedimages','Withoutinterwiki', 
'Newimages','Listfiles','MIMEsearch','FileDuplicateSearch','Filepath', 
'Booksources','Mostimages','Tags','Disambiguations','BrokenRedirects','Deadendpages',
'DoubleRedirects','Longpages','Ancientpages','Lonelypages','Fewestrevisions','Protectedpages',
'Protectedtitles','Shortpages','Uncategorizedcategories','Uncategorizedpages','Uncategorizedtemplates',
'Unusedcategories','Unusedtemplates','Wantedcategories','Wantedfiles','Wantedpages','Wantedtemplates',
'Allpages','Prefixindex','Categories','Listredirects','Activeusers','Contributions',
'Log','Newpages','Recentchanges','Recentchangeslinked','Listgrouprights','Listusers',
'Popularpages','Statistics','Allmessages','Version','LinkSearch','Random','Randomredirect',
'Mostlinkedcategories','Mostlinkedpages','Mostlinkedtemplates','Mostcategories','Mostrevisions',
'Export','Whatlinkshere'
)as $i){unset($list[$i]);}}
return true;}
$wgHooks['SpecialPage_initList'][]='SpecialPageBlock';

The example above limits access to the pages listed in the array to the 'sysop' group, by removing the pages from the rest of the groups. The best thing in this solution is that the pages in the array won't even show up on the SpecialPages.

For some reason Random and MostLinkedPages couldn't be disabled this way, any ideas why?

This post was posted by TheRebel~mediawikiwiki, but signed as TheRebel.

Thanks! A much better solution. People don't even know what they're missing.

This works perfectly. This should be linked to from restricting access pages. Thanks a bunch.

Here is a function which allows you to specify various user groups and also whitelist pages, as opposed to having to list every single page to block.

function SpecialPageBlock(&$list)
{
	global $wgUser;
	   
	$allowedGroups = array(
		'sysop',
	);
	
	$whiteList = array(
		'Userlogin',
		'Userlogout',
		'Search',
		'Preferences',
		'ChangePassword',
	);

	$allowed = false;
	$userGroups = $wgUser->getGroups();	
	foreach($allowedGroups as $group)
	{		
		if (in_array($group, $userGroups))
		{	
			$allowed = true;
			break;
		}		
	}
		
	if (!$allowed)			
	{
		foreach($list as $key => $specialPage)
		{	
			if (!in_array($key, $whiteList))
			{
				unset($list[$key]);
			}
		}
	}
	
	return true;
}

$wgHooks['SpecialPage_initList'][]='SpecialPageBlock';

Thanks a lot for sharing! Much apprechiated!

Thanks - i had to add 'ConfirmEmail', 'CreateAccount', to the $whitelist otherwise it is working for me!

Also i got this to work.. so LockDown is not totally useless for me... ;-)

# Lockdown start

wfLoadExtension( 'Lockdown' );

$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown['*']['edit'] = [ 'sysop' ];

      

You can then add special groups and permissions to flesh groups that can 'read' and/or 'edit' namespaces... appears to be working!