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Category and groups Mediawiki

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Ahackbartt (talkcontribs)

Hi! i need some help asociating groups to specific categories in mediawiki to give rights to edit for the members of that group.

I´ve tried doing this with the extension CategoryPermissions, but without luck. I can get access into any category after ive done the modifications to LocalSettings.php.


Is there any other way to do it?

Thanks!!

88.130.74.218 (talkcontribs)

Hi!

The last version of CategoryPermissions is years old; it might just not work correctly with current versions of MediaWiki anymore.

You basically can try to prevent people from accessing or editing certain pages. However, you have a fundamental problem here: MediaWiki is not made for access control.

See Extension:CategoryPermissions, Security_issues_with_authorization_extensions or Preventing_access. What you want better can be achieved with a CMS like Drupal or TYPO3.

Sorry that I can't tell you anything more helpful.

Ciencia Al Poder (talkcontribs)

The most granular restrictions you can do AFAIK is restrict per namespace. Create a new namespace and only allow users form a specific group to edit them.

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