Well, that's good; we probably wouldn't want any secret Air Force documents being picked over by prying eyes. ;)
Do you actually need to restrict editing of specific pages (for which you could always use standard protection), or would it be enough to just require users to log in to edit pages? (You could then then restrict account creation to administrators or registered users.) Take a look at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Preventing_access if that would suffice. If you needed more page-per-page controls, you could use namespace permissions, or try something like http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Page_access_restriction_with_MediaWiki (I don't know if it works for 1.9).
If you want to go with the PageSecurity extension, then you should probably contact its author.
On 1/25/07, Air Force CGOC Webmaster webmaster@afcgoc.org wrote:
Rob Church wrote:
On 25/01/07, Air Force CGOC Webmaster webmaster@afcgoc.org wrote:
Is there any word on when PageSecurity will work with MediaWiki 1.9? I now have a need for the extension, but I've already upgraded my wiki.
The name alone implies this is one of those wonderful false-sense-of-security extensions that will never fully work with MediaWiki and should not be trusted to secure data, ever. At all.
Well, I'm not looking to protect data, just set permissions on edit pages, which PageSecurity is more than adequate for. If you have a better way, please let me know. Otherwise, I was just trying to get feedback on timing - since I've seen the author post on this list.
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