[pmwiki-users] Block Link Creation from Group

[Scott Connard]

> Tegan Dowling wrote:
> On 2/27/07, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 12:42:57PM -1000, Sivakatirswami wrote:
>>
>>> How can one block creation of new pages in any group
>>>
>>> where, for example, {$Group} = TODO*
>>>
>>
>> If you're wanting to limit the creation of groups, see
>> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/LimitWikiGroups .
>>
>
> Could there be a way to bring up a **warning**, when the new page
> being created will also create a new group (i.e. one for which there
> is no pre-existing "RecentChanges" page), so that the user has to OK
> the change/re-Save the Edit?
>
> I have some wikis with users who are constantly trying to create
> pagenames like "St.PatricksDay", or "QuestionsForMr.Bush", and while I
> don't want to try to impose the editing restrictions that would be
> necessary to prevent that programatically, it would probably be
> sufficient to have a warning that would alert them that their edit
> wasn't going to have the desired effect.
>

I think that a warning would be a wonderful idea (at least as an  
option) because it is too easy to forget about groups when you create  
a page like [[Drinking coffee/tea]] and you get a totally unexpected  
result.

Scott Connard.