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, while
creating 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