Block Guests from page Creation
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- Kyonite - The Haruhi Pacifier
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Block Guests from page Creation
Is there a way to block unregistered people from creating pages?
Getting blank pages that are created by anonymous people whining about a chapter not being translated is incredibly annoying.
Edit: At least with registered users, you can temp-ban them when they do it.
Getting blank pages that are created by anonymous people whining about a chapter not being translated is incredibly annoying.
Edit: At least with registered users, you can temp-ban them when they do it.
- Misogi
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Re: Block Guests from page Creation
You can also block anonymous users, and a good part of vandalism is done by them.
One month for this guy, BTW.
Send a PM if someone does that again.
One month for this guy, BTW.
Send a PM if someone does that again.
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Re: Block Guests from page Creation
I realize that. (And thanks for the temp ban.) What I meant was, could page creation be globally disabled if you are not registered? Or is that not possible without blocking all edit capabilities?
IP banning only goes so far considering people can use alternative means to get a totally different IP.
IP banning only goes so far considering people can use alternative means to get a totally different IP.
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I think it's possible, but I don't know why it wasn't disabled.Rava wrote:I realize that. (And thanks for the temp ban.) What I meant was, could page creation be globally disabled if you are not registered? Or is that not possible without blocking all edit capabilities?
IP banning only goes so far considering people can use alternative means to get a totally different IP.
IP banning isn't perfect, but well, it works for now.
By the way, that guy was banned for one year, instead of one month, it was changed last night.
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Re: Block Guests from page Creation
If I remember correctly you can Semi-Protect articles (which makes it so only a certain predefined group of users can edit it), or Protect them (which makes it only Admin-editable or so).
You can also set which rights the anonymous user has, and which does every kind of user have too (Admin, Buroucrats, bots, normalUsers, etc). That would help with the blank page-creation thing and with mostly everything. The file which you edited to customize these things was called somthing like LocalSetting.php or st like that.
It has been a long time since I last used MediaWiki, but I hope this helps.
You can also set which rights the anonymous user has, and which does every kind of user have too (Admin, Buroucrats, bots, normalUsers, etc). That would help with the blank page-creation thing and with mostly everything. The file which you edited to customize these things was called somthing like LocalSetting.php or st like that.
It has been a long time since I last used MediaWiki, but I hope this helps.
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Only admins can set these settings, though.
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Re: Block Guests from page Creation
You can prevent anonymous users to create page, you were right : you have to edit the "LocalSettings.php" file and check that this is so:
(I guess it's setted true at the moment, which isn't optimal, as you said.)
But then it means only a real wiki über-admin, with FTP access, can do so, maybe even only TLG...
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$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createpage'] = false;
But then it means only a real wiki über-admin, with FTP access, can do so, maybe even only TLG...
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Re: Block Guests from page Creation
Anonymous users can't create normal pages. Seems like they can do so for Talk pages.
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Re: Block Guests from page Creation
Ah okay, I see. So it should be :
instead of true
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$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createtalk'] = false;
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- Kyonite - The Haruhi Pacifier
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Re: Block Guests from page Creation
Hmm, OK. That's pretty interesting to know.
Thanks everyone.
Thanks everyone.
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Re: Block Guests from page Creation
Wait, doesn't it mean that anons wouldn't be able to contact a translator if the latter doesn't have a talk page yet? :\
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Re: Block Guests from page Creation
That would be the case, but it would be more consistent with the other permissions that anons currently have, wouldn't it?