Access Rights
Basic rules
See Rights Resolution for the order in which the rules that apply to a page are examined, and Right Types for the default value and the conflict rule of each right.
Wiki Access Configuration
Open Wiki
See Open the Wiki to Unregistered Users, which covers both the rights to grant to unregistered visitors and the CAPTCHA to require before one of them posts a comment.
Public Wiki with Confirmed Registration
See Customize the Registration Page for email verification and the other registration settings, and Inactive User Accounts for what an account that has not confirmed its address can do.
Private Wiki
See Restrict the Wiki to Registered Users.
Main Wiki Access Rights
See Set the Rights of a Wiki, and Change the Extension Rights Globally for the rights that installed extensions register.
Sub-Wiki Access Rights
See Set the Rights of a Wiki, which covers a subwiki as well as the main wiki.
Page Access Rights
See Set the Rights of a Page, and Change Extension Rights at Page Level for the rights that installed extensions register.
Setting Rights for a Page and Its Children
Setting Rights for a Terminal Page
Further Reading
- This documentation has moved to the Rights topic.
- Right Types lists every right, and Required Rights of a Page covers the rights the content of a page may itself use.
- Some more information, also about APIs for developers, is available in the documentation of the authorization API.
- The "administration interface" is documented in the Administration Application.
