On 7/7/2006 at 1:21 PM Markus Fischer wrote: |we're using MediaWiki for our corporate intranet documentation and |sometimes have outside workers which should not be granted access to the |complete wiki because it may contain all kind of sensitive information. | |Is there *some* way implemented to restrict access for groups of users |to documentes? Like only accessing documents in a certain namespace or |from within a certain category? =============
Unfortunately, you are using the wiki for a task it was not designed to do. The wiki was designed as an open information system, everything is public. Indeed, the "wiki philosophy" often states the 'everything is public' mantra. As a result, the patches to allow for any manner of restricted access are at best a kludge, at worst an ongoing maintenance problem.
Because of the "everything is public" mantra, I doubt if there will ever be a reliable, robust, secure and maintained solution to the problem you pose.
My solution was to set up a second wiki behind apache's authorization/authentication model, so that only the people who need to see the pages of that wiki were able to access it.