Hi folks, I'm starting to take a more active interest in MediaWiki access control features, primarily in the area of integration with other applications and authenticaion systems. My initial interest in this was picqued by administrating a GForge site (helixcommunity.org) where there have been frequent requests for some form of wiki integration. However, my interest is probably more abstract than that now (i.e. I want to solve the general problem, rather than writing a one-off MediaWiki/GForge glue layer). As I've started my investigation, I've been looking at what conversations have occurred in the past. I've tried to document what I know so far here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_control I've wanted to get a good idea for what's already been discussed and how the code currently works before coming in swinging with my own ideas for improvements that can be made. A couple of questions: 1. I've included links to several bugs. I'd like to file a tracking bug in BZ which is blocked by those bugs so that I get the benefit of two-way links to all of the bugs. However, it doesn't appear that metabugs are standard practice here. Is that by policy? More to the point, would anyone mind if I filed an "Access control" tracking bug? 2. Is there anything major I'm missing? I'll be on #mediawiki IRC semi-regularly (as "robla"), but you may have to /msg me to get my attention. Thanks Rob