Why is the required permission not AUTH_READ but AUTH_CREATE?

[hokkaidoperson]

Why is the required permission not AUTH_READ but AUTH_CREATE?

[turnermm]

That sounds reasonable. I assume that the reasoning of the original author was that the user is in fact creating a new page and therefore needs create permission. I think the best way to handle this is to give the admin a choice as to whether to use CREATE or READ. But in the meantime you can make the change you want at line 151. If you are familiar enough with syntax plugins and can create a pull request which does this, that would be great.

[turnermm]

I've done the above myself. It is temporarily in a separate new branch:
https://github.com/turnermm/newpagetemplate/archive/acl.zip
Please install it and try it out. Thanks.

[hokkaidoperson]

Thank you, I'll use it.

In my wiki, the root namespace is set to the ACL 'read', and specific namespaces (such as 'a:' and 's:') are 'upload'.
In this case, the template page is in the root namespace (that doesn't allow users to create pages), and users make pages in the namespaces 'a', 's', etc. with the template.