Well, the inevitable has happened. Management wants to put stuff in our Wiki which they only want a select group of people to have access to read or edit.
What is the best way to go about this? I have MediaWiki 1.7.1 installed.
I don't have the requirements right now but I'm guessing they'll want the following...
Multiple groups of people. Certain pages where you have to be with a specific group to view a page. Certain pages where you have to be with a specific group to edit a page.
This may be used for a things such as official processes where only the process owner should be allowed to edit the article.
Also, I see something happening where another department (we just gave permission for another department to use our Wiki) will want a bunch of articles available only to engineers in that department. For example, say 30 engineers and a couple hundred articles with proprietary information on design philosophies. For this is it possible to use a separate namespace? Can you restrict a namespace to only being read by a group of people?
Are these kind of restrictions search safe in that if a page is restricted to a certain group and someone outside that group searches the Wiki he/she won't get any results from restricted pages where it would give a couple sentence preview?
Thanks in advance, ~Eric