Extension:CategoryLockdown
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 Release status: stable |
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| Implementation | User rights |
| Description | Restrict permissions by category and group |
| Author(s) | Sophivorustalk |
| Latest version | 4.0 (2021-12-13) |
| MediaWiki | >= 1.29.0 |
| Database changes | No |
| License | GNU General Public License 3.0 or later |
| Download | |
| Example | [1] |
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| Quarterly downloads | 13 (Ranked 116th) |
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The CategoryLockdown extension allows admins to restrict permissions by category and group.
Installation
edit- Download and move the extracted
CategoryLockdownfolder to yourextensions/directory.
Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/CategoryLockdown - Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:
wfLoadExtension( 'CategoryLockdown' );
Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.
Usage
editTo restrict the 'read' permission of the Category:Maintenance and its pages to the 'sysop' group only (admins), add the following to your LocalSettings.php:
$wgCategoryLockdown['Maintenance']['read'] = 'sysop';
Similarly, to restrict the 'edit' permission of the Category:Sales and its pages to the 'vendor' group:
$wgCategoryLockdown['Sales']['edit'] = 'vendor';
To restrict editing to users in the 'vendor' OR 'manager' groups:
$wgCategoryLockdown['Sales']['edit'] = [ 'vendor', 'manager' ];
Note that pages in subcategories are not affected. If Category:Clients is a subcategory of Category:Sales, then pages within it won't be protected by the above setting. You'd need to add:
$wgCategoryLockdown['Clients']['edit'] = [ 'vendor', 'manager' ];
Also note that if a page is in BOTH the Category:Sales and the Category:Clients, then the following will restrict editing to users in the 'vendor' OR 'manager' groups:
$wgCategoryLockdown['Sales']['edit'] = 'vendor',
$wgCategoryLockdown['Clients']['edit'] = 'manager';
Finally, note that:
- Rules don't apply to admins (users in the 'sysop' group).
- You can use this syntax to restrict any permission (not just 'read' and 'edit'). However, if users are allowed to read and edit a page, then they can avoid other restrictions by re-categorizing the page.
- This extension only removes permissions, it doesn't grant them. If the general config of your wiki forbids editing to all users, then adding a rule that restricts editing to a certain group won't work. Instead, allow editing to all users and then use this extension to restrict editing to the desired group.
See also
edit- Extension:Lockdown - More sophisticated but cannot restrict access by category and group
- Extension:Restrict access by category and group - Similar idea but more complicated and unmaintained