Extension talk:Require Editor Privilege

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Group Permissions

I noticed the assignment of permissions:

// Implicit group for administrators
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop' ] =
  array_merge( $wgGroupPermissions['sysop' ], $wgGroupPermissions['editor' ]);

$wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat' ] =
  array_merge( $wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat' ], $wgGroupPermissions['sysop' ]);

It appears (to me) that your giving the sysop the permission of both sysop and editor. And then giving bureaucrat the same as sysop. Wouldn't this then give the bureaucrat the righs of both sysop and editor. Doesn't this then make a bureaucrat essentially a sysop?

-- Sukima 04:38, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Without the extension bureaucrat and sysop have are users and hence have the same rights as an editor with the extension. You are right, that a bureaucrat does not necessarily have to be a sysop. Anyway he can grant sysop authorization to himself. --Xypron 17:38, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

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Compatibility with MediWiki 1.12.0 and Cite Extension

Apparently I have a problem using this extension together with Cite: When viewing pages as ananymous user, the reference tags are not correctly parsed, and no references are shown. Any ideas how to correct this? --92.195.125.98 07:29, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

What's the point?

This seems quite obsolete in version 1.12 (actually, after 1.5 and maybe even before). You could always restrict access by anonymous user. Of course, it wasn't very well documented a couple of years ago.... --Otheus 16:17, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

• This extension allows to restrict which registered users are allowed to read and write in the wiki. This allows to be much more restrictive then simply asking for registration. This makes sense when using the wiki for confidential information inside a company. Xypron 16:09, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

• • This is undocumented at best, and functionality which can be achieved with core MediaWiki by creating privileged user groups and then assigning users to those groups as required (see Manual:User rights). Rd232 07:57, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

• • • The functionality described under Manual:User rights is insufficient to allow new members to create an account while forbidding to read any other pages.