[Mediawiki-l] hiding and sharing articles/namespaces to the public

[Platonides]

> Dear mediawiki admin experts,
> 
>I am being asked if specific articles and/or all of the articles in certain namespace can 
 >be made to be an exception to our global restrictions on who can "see" 
the articles. A
 >specific example is the "Main Page" and any of the User's pages. So, 
does anyone know how
 >to configure a mediawiki such that "some" pages require secure browser 
authentication even
 >just to see them? If so, the ideal solution would behave such that new 
pages are created
 >inaccessible from the public by default. --- sincerest thanks all. - 
Rich (revansx)

If there isn't a lot of pages, maybe you can deal with $wgWhitelistRead?