Help:User rights and user groups

Table of Contents

This help page gives an overview to the user rights and user groups provided by Semantic MediaWiki.

Accessing special page "Special:SMWAdmin"

Semantic MediaWiki 1.5.1 to Semantic MediaWiki 1.8.0 required users to have the "delete" right to access special page "SMWAdmin". This user right is tied to the "admin" (sysop) group of MediaWiki core by default.

Semantic MediaWiki 1.9.0 introduced the "smw-admin" right to control access to special page "SMWAdmin". This user right is by default tied to the new user group "Administrator (Semantic Mediawiki)" (smw-admin) and to the "admin" (sysop) group of MediaWiki core by default.12

Editing system message "MediaWiki:Smw allows pattern"

Semantic MediaWiki 2.4.0 added the "smw-patternedit" right to limit edit access to the "Smw allows pattern" system message. This user right is tied to the new user group "Curator (Semantic Mediawiki)" (smwcurator) by default. 3 See also the help page on special property "Allows pattern" for further information.

Summary of available user rights and user groups

This table summarizes the strings one can use for the configuration in the "LocalSettings.php" file of a wiki. See also the manual on user rights on MediaWiki.org for how to do this.

user right	user group	user action
smw-admin	smw-admin	Accessing special page "SMWAdmin" and using the functionality connected with it.
smw-patternedit	smwcurator	Editing system message "Smw allows pattern" and setting up the functionality connected with it.

See also

• special page "Special:ListGroupRights" - showing the user groups and user rights assigned to them on this wiki

This documentation page applies to all SMW versions from 1.9.0 to the most current version.

     

Help:User rights and user groups en 1.9.0

References

1. ^ ↑ Semantic MediaWiki: Gerrit change set 67988
2. ^ ↑ Semantic MediaWiki: Phabricator task T50840
3. ^ ↑ | ↑ Semantic MediaWiki: GitHub pull request 1417