Resending this because it doesn't appear to have reached the archive. (I've got to figure out how to make these use the right address) ~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of The Gaiapedia, Wikia Graphical Entertainment Project, and Wiki-Tools.com
Not theory, practice ^_^. http://central.wiki-tools.com <-- Main Wiki http://cabal.wiki-tools.com <-- Cabal Wiki (Pardon the Name) I just put up the permissions to demonstrate. I haven't gotten around to it, but someone else with little programming knowledge tried to create Extension:Cabal and failed. So I'm probably going to build a proper one which gives you a black screen with nothing but a login no matter what you do if you're not logged in. Though, my setup is a little more complex. We also have a Global Staff group setup via my Semi-Shared Permissions trick, and that also allows access to that restricted wiki in addition to the Cabal group, which I might make global later and use some trickery to hide it from view so that I can put a link to the cabal for cabal users only in one of the 2 sidebars.. Don't mind the skin, it's still being developed. And if you are wondering why there is a Smarty tag there, that's because the skins are what I call Smarty Based Universal skins. I'm using the smarty parser in combination with a number of my sharing tricks to create a few skins which work universally across whatever system I chose. Right now they are just part of MediaWiki, but soon they will be usable on our WordPress blog, and probably the CMSMadeSimple site.
~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of The Gaiapedia, Wikia Graphical Entertainment Project, and Wiki-Tools.com
Brion Vibber wrote:
Una wrote:
Hi. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access mentions a method of rudimentary access control involving two mediawiki wikis, one public, one private, with a shared user database. That sounds like what I want to migrate a pair of existing e-mail discussion groups onto wikis. The groups share a lot of content and members, but one group is public and the other is (nominally) private.
The difficulty is, "shared user database" is a redlink. Could anyone here help me fill in the details?
Could this be the correct link: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:%24wgSharedDB
Yep, that'll be the one. User groups (and thus rights assignments) are separate in each database, so you can manually put users into a privileged group to get read access on the other one.
At least, in theory it should work. ;)
-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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