Extension:NoBogusUserpages

MediaWiki extensions manual

NoBogusUserpages Release status: unmaintained
Implementation	User rights
Description	Allows only privileged users to create userpages for non-existent users.
Author(s)	Daniel Friesen (Dantmantalk)
Latest version	1.1.1 (2017-01-27)
MediaWiki	1.25+
Database changes	No
License	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
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Added rights createbogususerpage
Hooks used getUserPermissionsErrors
Quarterly downloads	0
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The NoBogusUserpages extension implements a restriction that allows only privileged users to create userpages for non-existent users. With this extension installed, new page creation at the root level of the User: namespace is blocked unless the creator's username is the same as the desired page name or the user has been assigned the createbogususerpage right (see user rights below for how to do that). Without this extension, anyone with the right to create pages in the user namespace can create bogus pages for users who do not exist on the wiki.

Installation

• Download and move the extracted NoBogusUserpages folder to your extensions/ directory.
  Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/NoBogusUserpages
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  wfLoadExtension( 'NoBogusUserpages' );
  

•  Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

User rights

createbogususerpage

Allows users to create bogus userpages. By default this is given just to sysops.

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createbogususerpage'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['createbogususerpage'] = true;