MediaWiki Permissions
This is a plea for help regarding the MediaWiki permissions model. I spent the majority of all last night looking for a way to have an open wiki with certain pages that weren’t viewable by anyone except sysops. I know you can lock a page from editing, but I need certain pages to be invisible.
The closest I could find was a whitelist scheme. For my purposes though, the whitelist scheme would be far too hard to update, as my number of public pages is far greater than private pages and maintaining a whitelist would be too time consuming.
Are there ways to do one of the following?
- Namespace the default set of documents and whitelist them, while creating a different namespace for the private pages?
- Manage a blacklist of pages? Or blacklist a namespace?
Any answer I find will be posted here and on MediaWiki for posterity, and will be greatly appreciated.
brainscat » MediaWiki Blacklisting Pages (cont.) Said,
August 5, 2004 @ 4:11 pm
[...] ng Pages (cont.) Filed under: mediawiki — tor @ 12:11 pm It looks like my quest for more robust MediaWiki permissions has taken an adventerous turn. One of [...]
Sam Odio Said,
October 2, 2006 @ 11:58 pm
I’m also looking for more robust MediaWiki permissions. Let me know if you make any progress on this.
Tor Bjornrud Said,
October 3, 2006 @ 11:42 am
Sam, I made a blacklist patch resolving this issue. Though, it was for a version long long ago. So, use at your own risk.
http://brainscat.com/archives/2004/08/10/blacklist-pages-in-mediawiki