Nicholas Buttle wrote:
I'm trying to put together a wiki for an Architectural firm.
- They want categories somewhat like you have in
Twiki. However, I've had a look at Twiki and I find it pretty difficult to get to grips with so I imagine it'll be user unfriendly in the firm. Is there a way of changing the side bar if you navigate to a category page? ie the sidebar becomes the subcategory bar when you get to the selected category.
Sorry, you'd have to develop this capability yourself.
Consider using TWiki if that's what your client wants. :)
- What level of user access control is there in
mediawiki? We're after 'locking down' certain pages and leaving others open to editing by just about everybody.
Very limited capabilities in this regard; MediaWiki is aimed at open-access sites. If you need multiple levels of read access or pages which can only be read by certain users, for instance, MediaWiki is not suitable. There may be third-party hacks to try to support this but they are likely to be insecure, and using them may put you or your client's data at risk.
If you just want to protect a few pages against editing by non-administrators, that's fine.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org)