Extension:ToggleAnonRights

MediaWiki extensions manual

File:OOjs UI icon advanced-invert.svg Toggle Anon Rights Release status: unmaintained
Implementation	User rights
Description	On-wiki toggling of anonymous users' permissions
Author(s)	Ryan Schmidt (Skizzerztalk)
Latest version	1.2.1
MediaWiki	1.11+
License	Public domain
Download	ToggleAnonRights.php
Hooks used UserGetRights
Quarterly downloads
Public wikis using

Usage

This extension allows anyone with the 'editinterface' permission to revoke permissions from anonymous users in emergency situations. This may be useful, for example, to prevent anonymous users from creating accounts when one has a large flood of automated account creations.

To use this extension, edit MediaWiki:Anonrights and add a bulleted list of rights to revoke from anonymous users, for example, the following in the page source would revoke their rights to edit and create new accounts:

* edit
* createaccount

Also, this can only be used to remove existing rights from anonymous users. You cannot add rights this way.

Removable rights

ToggleAnonRights allows removal of the following rights, in addition to other rights that anonymous users may receive:

* createaccount
* read
* edit
* createpage
* createtalk
* writeapi

Download instructions

Please cut and paste the code found below and place it in $IP/extension/ToggleAnonRights/ToggleAnonRights.php. Note: $IP stands for the root directory of your MediaWiki installation, the same directory that holds LocalSettings.php.

Installation

To install this extension, add the following to the end of LocalSettings.php:

require_once("$IP/extensions/ToggleAnonRights/ToggleAnonRights.php");

ToggleAnonRights.php

<?php
/**
 * Toggle Anon Rights extension for MediaWiki
 * Allows toggling of various anonymous group permissions
 * Add rights in bulleted list format to globally disable them for anons, remove from the list to re-enable
 * THIS CAN ONLY BE USED TO REMOVE RIGHTS, NOT ADD THEM!
 *
 * @file
 * @ingroup Extensions
 * @version 1.2.1
 * @author Ryan Schmidt
 * @link http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ToggleAnonRights Documentation
 */

if( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
	echo( 'This file is an extension to the MediaWiki software and cannot be used standalone' );
	die( 1 );
}

// Extension credits that will show up on Special:Version
$wgExtensionCredits['other'][] = array(
	'name' => 'Toggle Anon Rights',
	'version' => '1.2.1',
	'author' => 'Ryan Schmidt',
	'url' => 'http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ToggleAnonRights',
	'description' => "On-wiki toggling of anonymous users' permissions",
);

$wgHooks['UserGetRights'][] = 'ToggleAnonRights';

function ToggleAnonRights( $user, &$aRights ) {
	if( $user->isLoggedIn() ) {
		// don't do anything, but return true to continue hook processing
		return true;
	}

	$pages = explode( "\n", wfMessage( 'anonrights' )->text() );

	foreach( $pages as $value ) {
		$right = trim( trim( trim( trim( $value ), "*" ) ), "*" ); // make sure ALL whitespace is removed
		$key = array_search( $right, $aRights );
		if( $key !== false ) {
			array_splice( $aRights, $key, 1 );
		}
	}
	return true;
}