Restrict editing of certain specific pages. Use the Protect feature. By default, any sysop can protect pages so only other sysops can edit them. In 1.9 and higher, by default they can also protect pages so only "autoconfirmed" users (with accounts older than a configured period) can edit them.
Specifically, to allow everyone to read (but not edit) the Main Page and a page named Public stuff, and to allow only sysops to read and edit all pages, you'd add the following lines to your LocalSettings.php: # prevent editing and reading by anons (except for exception listed below): $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
You could check, if there is a user right to view "Special:"-pages. If so, revoke it. Maybe you can revoke permission to see pages in the namespace with the special pages. Maybe MediaWiki also offers a hook to modify user's permissions for the currently called page. In case the user requests a special page, set the "view" right to false.
In brief: There will be ways for users to access the content of restricted pages.) Now, if you still want to try and restrict access to some pages, there are a few extensions to choose from . Among thoose Extension:Lockdown will allow you to set per namespace permissions, and special page restrictions.
The Page specific user rights extensions category contains various extensions that attempt to restrict a user's access to specific pages based on the namespace, category links, and/or title patterns. Before installing one of these extensions, users should be aware that such extensions are likely to exhibit three significant problems:
1 Answer. Sorted by: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access. Share. Improve this answer. edited Jun 16, 2020 at 10:46. Community Bot. 1. answered May 11, 2011 at 9:50. 5,619. Thanks alot. Could you also specify in your answer how to restrict viewing and account creation.
Types of protections. Two types of protection levels exist on MediaWiki by default. Semi protected - This option prevents non-registered users from editing the page. It is best used to curb vandalism. On a page's protection settings, this option is specified as "Allow only autoconfirmed users".