Media Wiki Security Concepts

External

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access#Simple_private_wiki

Internal

• MediaWiki Concepts

Reading

Disable reading by anonymous users:

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false;

To allow anonymous users access to the login page:

$wgWhitelistRead = array ("Special:Userlogin");

Editing

Disable anonymous editing:

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;

Account Creation

Controlled by LocalSettings.php:

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;

This prevents account creation by anyone (logged in or not), except by sysops.