Whoever is interested in this kind of feature might want to take a look
at the inofficial patch:
Tels a écrit :
I'm using MediaWiki to create a corporate wiki,
and need to allow
access to certain pages only to certain groups. I don't see full
support for this in MediaWiki as of 1.4.11
There is no support for that in MediaWiki; I recommend you use some
other product which suits your requirements.
And why not add it to MediaWiki? *puzzled*
Here is the technical reason I identified :
- If page view can be deactivated, page inclusion is still possible as a
template like this : {{:MyPage}}. Maybe the way to forbid page inclusion
need less trivial hack than forbidding page view
I thnik the ethical reason why Mediawiki do not provide this feature is
that, as long as some pages needs to be unmodifiable, the "open" side of
the project require that nothing is hidden.
But, like you, I need the same feature. Mediawiki is popular in many
enterprises and organisation, maybe because it has a lot of features
(maybe the most of all wiki engines). But in the private area, some
requirements are really different than Wikimedia ones, of course. This
is why I understand Mediawiki developpers don't spend time on this. But
maybe you (mediawiki main developpers) already identified all
modifications that is needed to implement this feature.
This way, anybody that want this feature (maybe me at some time) would
do this work.
Regards