Namespace Permissions

A Guide to Using MediaWiki in a Hosted Environment

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The $wgGroupPermissions variable can be used to restrict access to content by Namespace. The settings are added to LocalSettings.php.

Depending on your choices when installing MediaWiki, LocalSettings.php may already contain these lines (comments have been added):-

# The following permissions were set based on your choice in the installer
$wgGroupPermissions["*"]["createaccount"] = false; # Anonymous users cannot create an Account
$wgGroupPermissions["*"]["edit"] = false;          # Anonymous users cannot edit content

The next step is to assign permissions for each Namespace. For example:-

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['editSNIPPETS'] = true;

See article Configure Namespaces.

A file in the /w directory which contains the configuration settings for the MediaWiki site