I can think of one possibility:
Create two wikis and use interwiki links between the two of them. The ones that you wish to keep private could be protected by .htaccess authentication, requiring a password.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem easy to modify the list of recognized interwiki links in MediaWiki. I know in TikiWiki there was an admin page for this, but MediaWiki doesn't have one. All I could find was a page where you can suggest sites to be added into the next release of the code! Someone asked in the Talk page how to do this yourself, but there is no answer. (Sorry to have so many references to TikiWiki. I hate its bloat, which is why I'm now using MediaWiki, but some of the many features it had are really quite useful - especially for configuring your own setup.)
Cheers,
kerim
On Aug 4, 2004, at 12:44 PM, Tor Bjornrud wrote:
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
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