Last modified: 2009-05-31 06:37:47 UTC
Consider a red link in Special:Categories. Well if we have something like $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit']=false; $wgGroupPermissions['user']['edit']=false; when the user clicks on the red (or maybe black, with a red"?") link, he will see View source... This page has been locked to prevent editing. But the list of pages in that category are gone! Doesn't happen on blue links. He must manually remove the action=edit if he is to see it.
Maybe you should fill out your category descriptions.
As of 1.16, the user will at most be lead to a page with bug 17630. He will no longer suffer the following scenario: Allow us to share the pain of a different example. Visit http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Installing_your_own_SquirrelMail at the bottom click on the juicy category which happens to be linked as so http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php?title=Category:SquirrelMail&action=edit Permission error You do not have permission to do that, for the following reason: > Do what? All the user did was click on a link. > That it was a boobytrapped action=edit link is not something the user should have to know The action you have requested is limited to users in the group user. > "What action? Clicking?" the user wonders. Retrieved from "http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Category:SquirrelMail" >Which in fact is a much more polite link, despite bug 17630 And the worst of all, the categories don't even show at the bottom.
