Extension:GroupWhitelist
This extension is professionally maintained by the WikiTeq team.
WikiTeq provides official support for MediaWiki LTS releases only. It may work with other MediaWiki releases.
![]() Release status: stable |
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Implementation | User rights |
Description | Allows to override per page permissions based on a whitelist |
Author(s) | WikiWorks team |
Maintainer(s) | WikiTeq team |
Compatibility policy | For every MediaWiki release that is a Long Term Support release there is a corresponding branch in the extension. |
MediaWiki | 1.31+ |
License | GNU General Public License 2.0 or later |
Download | README |
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Quarterly downloads | 0 |
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Issues | Open tasks · Report a bug |
The extension allows to grant users from selected group with a special per-page rights specifying affected pages list on a regular wiki page.
This extension was created for WikiWorks.
Installation
edit- Download and move the extracted
GroupWhitelist
folder 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/GroupWhitelist - Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:
wfLoadExtension( 'GroupWhitelist' );
- Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.
Configuration parameters
edit$wgGroupWhitelistRights |
A list of actions to be allowed |
$wgGroupWhitelistGroup |
A group affected by the extension |
$wgGroupWhitelistSourcePage |
A page to look for list of whitelisted pages |
$wgGroupWhitelistAPIAllow |
API modules to be always granted with the right |
The default configuration is:
$wgGroupWhitelistRights = [ 'edit' ];
$wgGroupWhitelistGroup = 'user';
$wgGroupWhitelistSourcePage = 'Mediawiki:Whitelist';
$wgGroupWhitelistAPIAllow = [];
The Mediawiki:Whitelist contents could be:
* SomePage1
// Comments are allowed
* SomePage2
* SomaPage3
The settings above allow users from a `user` group to `edit` pages specified in the `Mediawiki:Whitelist` page contents (`SomePage1`, `SomePage2`, `SomePage3`).
See also
edit- Extension:InternalWhitelist - A similar extension that only allows whitelisting pages for reading by anonymous users.