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I'd like to have registered users be read-only by default. I'm a mediawiki noob, but from reading through user rights, I think this means modifying the Access Rights in the Users group to remove all rights associated with editing and moving of pages and files. Then create a new group "Authors" that has these rights.

Open to suggestions for best approach to this.

Thanks,

Bill

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Do you want to make anonymous users read only too?

It's intended as a private wiki. An anonymous user can view the home page or login.

Ok. I can only let some members be able to edit. Is it fine if the group is called editors or does it have to be authors in the code? I can make the software call it authors when the code says editors if you want. Would this also be fine?

EditingMatrix in LocalSettings
anon=true,
user=true,
editor=true

will do the job, and editing Mediawiki:group-editor (iirc cuz mobile now) to ‘authors’ will make it show ‘editor’. I would prefer if we just keep the conventions, instead of hard-coding user right name.

The name for the Author group with edit privileges isn't essential. Just need a group I can apply to the few registered users that will have edit privileges. Whatever is easiest/cleanest to implement.

Thanks!

Please be aware that you will likely need to add yourself to the editor group in order to be able to edit. No longer relevant.

Confirmed I can make a user a member of Editors group.
Confirmed that user that is not a member of Editors group does not see the Edit tab. A nit, but it looks like they can still move a page (under the More tab, there is a Move command).

Thanks for your help with this!

Reception123 mentioned this in Unknown Object (Diffusion Commit).Jan 9 2018, 06:32
Void mentioned this in Unknown Object (Diffusion Commit).Jan 9 2018, 06:42