You could restrict group access to the write API, which has more destructive potential than simple queries:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Restricting_API_usage#Restricting_access_to_the_write_API I agree with the others that there's no benefit to restricting access to the read API. Jim On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 5:49 AM, C Stafford <c.staff...@gmail.com> wrote: > Lots of bot frameworks can still read the contents from the html. Just > blocking their reading through the api is very useless. > > You could turn off the api entirely. Thats about the only way to stop > it from being used. > > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 5:45 AM, Андрій Гончар <gonand...@gmail.com> wrote: >> For increasing security. >> Deny fetching my wiki through api by bots >> Or, probably, I want something absurd ? >> _______________________________________________ >> Mediawiki-api mailing list >> Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
