On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Pericles Sobreira <
[email protected]> wrote:
> When I protect a certain page (action=protect&protections=edit=G8), all
> users of the wiki are blocked to edit it (as expected), but also, the
> participants of G8 (the group that should edit this page)... someone knows
> this issue?
>
Protection levels in MediaWiki are on the basis of user rights, not groups
("sysop" is special-cased). So when you say "protections=edit=G8", you're
saying that anyone with the G8 user right is allowed to edit the page.
The solution is to add that right to the G8 group:
$wgGroupPermissions['G8']['G8'] = true;
Note you'll probably also want to add that G8 right to sysops, or they
won't be able to actually apply the G8 protection level.
See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgRestrictionLevels for a more
detailed explanation.
> I initially created the following two lines in LocalSettings.php:
> $wgGroupPermissions['G8']['edit'] = false;
> $wgGroupPermissions['G8']['read'] = false;
>
Note that just means members of the G8 group aren't allowed to read or edit
pages (although they could be allowed via membership in other groups, e.g.
'*' or 'user').
> And after, I changed these permissions to 'true':
> $wgGroupPermissions['G8']['edit'] = true;
> $wgGroupPermissions['G8']['read'] = true;
>
That just means members of the G8 group are allowed to read and edit pages.
> I have also modified the following line in the DefaultSettings.php file:
> $wgRestrictionLevels = array( '', 'autoconfirmed',
> 'sysop','G1','G2','G3','G4','G5','G6','G7','G8');
>
That's what allows you to use "G8" as a protection level.
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