Hey all,
My original question was posed on my blog. http://brainscat.com/archives/2004/08/04/mediawiki-permissions Hopefully, somebody knows an answer... :)
This is a plea for help regarding the MediaWiki permissions model. I spent the majority of all last night looking for a way to have an open wiki with certain pages that weren’t viewable by anyone except sysops. I know you can lock a page from editing, but I need certain pages to be invisible.
The closest I could find was a whitelist scheme. For my purposes though, the whitelist scheme would be far too hard to update, as my number of public pages is far greater than private pages and maintaining a whitelist would be too time consuming.
Are there ways to do one of the following?
* Namespace the default set of documents and whitelist them, whilecreating a different namespace for the private pages? * Manage a blacklist of pages? Or blacklist a namespace?
Any answer I find will be posted here and on MediaWiki for posterity, and will be greatly appreciated.
Best, ~Tor