derrick.farnell at gmail
May 8, 2008, 12:00 AM
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Re: Is there a way to control edit rights for talk pages differently from content pages?
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Is the conclusion here that it may be better just adding a protection
instruction line for each non-talk namespace:
$wgNamespaceProtection[NS_MAIN] = array( 'sysop' );
$wgNamespaceProtection[NS_MEDIAWIKI] = array( 'sysop' );
$wgNamespaceProtection[NS_TEMPLATE] = array( 'sysop' );
$wgNamespaceProtection[NS_WIKI_TITLE] = array( 'sysop' );
etc.
plus:
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['sysop'] = true;
?
Derrick
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:35 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton[at]gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 07/05/2008, Boris Steipe <boris.steipe[at]utoronto.ca> wrote:
> > Guys,
> > while this looks elegant on the surface, this is almost a textbook
> > example of inadvertent obfuscation. No-one who does not remember the
> > connection between talk namespaces and their ID will be able to
> > figure out _why_ this loop is being run. Moreover, the code will
> > break in case this connection is at some point lost.
> >
> > If this were in my lab, I would require the permissions to be
> > explicitly set. This will go a long way to make the code
> > maintainable. Even if the only maintainer is you, yourself, half a
> > year from now. Sure, you type more; but code is very much more often
> > read than written. And making implicit knowledge explicit, that's
> > what software engineering is all about.
> >
> > $0.02
> >
> >
> > Boris
> > (At the very least add a comment and explanation!)
>
> Yeah, a comment or two would be good. It's important to note that this
> is just a config setting and not part of the core code. The core code
> shouldn't generally be modified by end users, and if they do, they
> need to know what they're doing. Once you've configured your site,
> significant changes aren't particularly likely. A comment just in case
> would be good, but there's no need to worry overly much. Doing it this
> way would mean that adding new namespaces wouldn't require you to
> remember to add new protection, it just requires you to continue to
> use the same convention.
>
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