Difference between revisions of "Mediawiki Permissions"
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the so called Administrator, or Sysop, who is mainly in charge of the administration of wiki contents. Usually he has the right to | the so called Administrator, or Sysop, who is mainly in charge of the administration of wiki contents. Usually he has the right to | ||
− | + | * Block a user from sending e-mail (blockemail) | |
− | + | * Block other users from editing (block) | |
− | + | * Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt) | |
− | + | * Bypass automatic blocks of proxies (proxyunbannable) | |
− | + | * Change protection levels and edit protected pages (protect) | |
− | + | * Create new user accounts (createaccount) | |
− | + | * Delete pages (delete) | |
− | + | * Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete) | |
− | + | * Edit other users' CSS and JS files (editusercssjs) | |
− | + | * Edit semi-protected pages (autoconfirmed) | |
− | + | * Edit the user interface (editinterface) | |
− | + | * Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol) | |
− | + | * Import pages from a file upload (importupload) | |
− | + | * Import pages from other wikis (import) | |
− | + | * Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol) | |
− | + | * Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits) | |
− | + | * Move files (movefile) | |
− | + | * Move pages (move) | |
− | + | * Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages) | |
− | + | * Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages) | |
− | + | * Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit) | |
− | + | * Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared) | |
− | + | * Overwrite an existing file (reupload) | |
− | + | * Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback) | |
− | + | * Search deleted pages (browsearchive) | |
− | + | * Submit a trackback (trackback) | |
− | + | * Undelete a page (undelete) | |
− | + | * Upload a file from a URL address (upload_by_url) | |
− | + | * Upload files (upload) | |
− | + | * Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits) | |
− | + | * View a list of unwatched pages (unwatchedpages) | |
− | + | * View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory) | |
There is another profile, the so called "Bureaucrat". This is important mainly because it can assign the permission to other users. | There is another profile, the so called "Bureaucrat". This is important mainly because it can assign the permission to other users. |
Revision as of 12:46, 27 May 2009
Mediawiki is born with Wikipedia permissions model in mind. That is: everybody can read everything, everybody can edit everything, even unauthenticated people can edit pages.
Usually, for a service wiki this is not an acceptable behaviour. The possible scenarios are
- a wiki where all sissa users (or a restricted group of them) can logon with their main passwords and edit pages, while unauthenticated users can only read the pages.
- a wiki accessible to both sissa users with their username
Furthermore there are, usually, two kinds of administrative users:
the so called Administrator, or Sysop, who is mainly in charge of the administration of wiki contents. Usually he has the right to
- Block a user from sending e-mail (blockemail)
- Block other users from editing (block)
- Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
- Bypass automatic blocks of proxies (proxyunbannable)
- Change protection levels and edit protected pages (protect)
- Create new user accounts (createaccount)
- Delete pages (delete)
- Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)
- Edit other users' CSS and JS files (editusercssjs)
- Edit semi-protected pages (autoconfirmed)
- Edit the user interface (editinterface)
- Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
- Import pages from a file upload (importupload)
- Import pages from other wikis (import)
- Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
- Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits)
- Move files (movefile)
- Move pages (move)
- Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages)
- Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages)
- Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
- Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared)
- Overwrite an existing file (reupload)
- Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)
- Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
- Submit a trackback (trackback)
- Undelete a page (undelete)
- Upload a file from a URL address (upload_by_url)
- Upload files (upload)
- Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits)
- View a list of unwatched pages (unwatchedpages)
- View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)
There is another profile, the so called "Bureaucrat". This is important mainly because it can assign the permission to other users.