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In a MediaWiki-based non-communal website there are some HTML elements that should be presented only for logged-in-users (an administration menu or some of its links).

Usually if I want to hide something for a certain group of users like anonymous users I browse into the website when logged-out, and then take a <body> CSS ID or Class like #anonymous-user to create some condition like this:

#anonymous-user .administration-menu {display: none}

I tried to search for a <body> CSS ID or Class that I could utilize to hide things for anonymous users in MediaWiki but found none.

How could I create one myself?

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  • All display:none is doing is hiding a section of a page if a user is using your stylesheet, which they can turn off. If there are links only for admins that is a very bad way of operating. Instead you should have a server variable set when a user is logged in, test for that, and only if it's set then create in PHP the section containing the links. MediaWiki tests for logged in users with if ( $user->isLoggedIn() ) {, see eg user.php. – pbhj Jun 17 '19 at 21:46
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You will have to adjust the user/group permissions behind the scenes. Here is the guide the default user and group permissions that are installed on the stock API.

MediaWiki Help:User rights and groups

You may have to work in reverse with the stock permissions by hiding / restricting features to the “all” group then allowing the features to the “users” and “administrators” list.

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