On 19/06/06, Ken McDonald <ken(a)pixologic.com> wrote:
I'm aware that there is no standard mechanism for
assigning particular
access privileges based on namespace (we don't really want to use one of
the custom plugins unless it's pretty sure it will end up in the next
version of MW), but is there any "good" (semi-approved) way to
write-protect this particular namespace?
Use the hook in Title::userCan(), check against the namespace and
$wgUser->isAllowed(); add custom permissions via an extension.
This can probably be done fairly reliably; it's restricting reading
that's the bigger problem.
Rob Church