Eric,
I use the lockdown.php extension - and I'm loving it.
I was going to put the full instructions, but frankly they're just too long. If you register at our development wiki, I'll give you access (may take a day or so).
Start here:
http://wiki.montcopa.org/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MediaWiki_FAQs
Then go to
http://wiki.montcopa.org/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Creating_a_New_MediaWiki_ Community
Of course, as always, I probably did it the hard way.
Jack D. Pond CIO, Montgomery County, PA
"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882)
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Frederich, Eric P21322 Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 5:48 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: [Mediawiki-l] $wgNamespaceProtection
I finally got a test environment set up so I can try out different methods for access control.
The first one I wanted to try was suggested by Platonides.
I took a look at the diffs at http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=rev&revision=19110 and applied them manually to included/Title.php and includes/DefaultSettings.php.
This is as far as I got. I guess since it isn't included in the default download of MediaWiki there isn't much talk about using it out there. Could someone explain to me how I would use this to restrict editing of pages in "namespace x" to users in "group y"?
Thanks, ~Eric