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derrick.farnell at gmail

May 7, 2008, 6:46 AM

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Re: Is there a way to control edit rights for talkpages differently from content pages?

Thanks, but I'd rather that the site only allowed admins to edit content
pages, rather than having to protect each content page manually. Also, I
want anyone to be able to create a content page.

Derrick


On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] <
sullivan[at]mail.nih.gov> wrote:

> This is sort of kludgy but you could give your admins Sysop privilege,
> then have them protect each article via the protect tab after they
> initially create the article, which prevents all but Sysops from editing
> it. The talk page for that article should still be editable by regular
> (non-Sysop) users.
>
> -Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kathleen Cooch [mailto:Kathleen.Cooch[at]dominos.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 8:35 AM
> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Is there a way to control edit rights for
> talkpages differently from content pages?
>
> >Hi
>
> >I want only admins to be able to edit content, but anyone to be able to
> post to talk
> >pages - is there a way to control edit rights for talk pages
> differently from content
> > pages?
>
> >Thanks in advance for any help
>
> >Derrick
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