Hi all,
I have a question that may be similar to G. Moko's post on December 19th regarding "Dump of Recent Changes".
I have a private enterprise wiki that currently has some external users that have been granted read-only access. I have been asked to remove these external users from the wiki, but they need access to some of the content.
What is the best way to handle this? Extensions? Separate wiki that automatically updates from the main using dumps (like G. Moko's post) and some filtering (flagged pages, etc.)?
I'm considering adding the collection extension [1]. The content that needs to be shared could be added and maintained by the collection and daily/weekly pdf books could be distributed (possibly via Dropbox).
I welcome any thoughts on or suggestions. Thanks!
Regards, Bryan
Hello,
just a info: MediaWiki is not a CMS but a Wiki. This may be not 100% secure but it should work. You may want to have a look at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lockdown .
Best, Martin Urbanec (cs.wikipedia)
út 26. 12. 2017 v 22:39 odesílatel Bryan Hilderbrand bryanh@tegnosis.wiki napsal:
Hi all,
I have a question that may be similar to G. Moko's post on December 19th regarding "Dump of Recent Changes".
I have a private enterprise wiki that currently has some external users that have been granted read-only access. I have been asked to remove these external users from the wiki, but they need access to some of the content.
What is the best way to handle this? Extensions? Separate wiki that automatically updates from the main using dumps (like G. Moko's post) and some filtering (flagged pages, etc.)?
I'm considering adding the collection extension [1]. The content that needs to be shared could be added and maintained by the collection and daily/weekly pdf books could be distributed (possibly via Dropbox).
I welcome any thoughts on or suggestions. Thanks!
Regards, Bryan
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Just a note, because it may not be clear from what I written above. This will require a) having the shared content public b) having the external users accounts on the wiki. I beleive that you was asked for account-removing because they should not have access to the entrie wiki, but only to limited subset of pages. The extension Lockdown allows you to accomplish such thing.
Martin
út 26. 12. 2017 v 23:17 odesílatel Martin Urbanec < martin.urbanec@wikimedia.cz> napsal:
Hello,
just a info: MediaWiki is not a CMS but a Wiki. This may be not 100% secure but it should work. You may want to have a look at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lockdown .
Best, Martin Urbanec (cs.wikipedia)
út 26. 12. 2017 v 22:39 odesílatel Bryan Hilderbrand bryanh@tegnosis.wiki napsal:
Hi all,
I have a question that may be similar to G. Moko's post on December 19th regarding "Dump of Recent Changes".
I have a private enterprise wiki that currently has some external users that have been granted read-only access. I have been asked to remove these external users from the wiki, but they need access to some of the content.
What is the best way to handle this? Extensions? Separate wiki that automatically updates from the main using dumps (like G. Moko's post) and some filtering (flagged pages, etc.)?
I'm considering adding the collection extension [1]. The content that needs to be shared could be added and maintained by the collection and daily/weekly pdf books could be distributed (possibly via Dropbox).
I welcome any thoughts on or suggestions. Thanks!
Regards, Bryan
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Martin,
A quick note: The Lockdown extension has not worked since Mediawiki 1.26. If I’m not mistaken almost all the access restriction extensions no longer work (several of the older extensions, like Lockdown & SemanticACL, were good at access restrictions). The philosophy that a wiki must be totally open, regardless of the needs of many, especially Enterprise users, seems to have a firm hold on the mind-set of Mediawiki developers.
Sent from my iPad
On Dec 26, 2017, at 2:21 PM, Martin Urbanec martin.urbanec@wikimedia.cz wrote:
Just a note, because it may not be clear from what I written above. This will require a) having the shared content public b) having the external users accounts on the wiki. I beleive that you was asked for account-removing because they should not have access to the entrie wiki, but only to limited subset of pages. The extension Lockdown allows you to accomplish such thing.
Martin
út 26. 12. 2017 v 23:17 odesílatel Martin Urbanec < martin.urbanec@wikimedia.cz> napsal:
Hello,
just a info: MediaWiki is not a CMS but a Wiki. This may be not 100% secure but it should work. You may want to have a look at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lockdown .
Best, Martin Urbanec (cs.wikipedia)
út 26. 12. 2017 v 22:39 odesílatel Bryan Hilderbrand bryanh@tegnosis.wiki napsal:
Hi all,
I have a question that may be similar to G. Moko's post on December 19th regarding "Dump of Recent Changes".
I have a private enterprise wiki that currently has some external users that have been granted read-only access. I have been asked to remove these external users from the wiki, but they need access to some of the content.
What is the best way to handle this? Extensions? Separate wiki that automatically updates from the main using dumps (like G. Moko's post) and some filtering (flagged pages, etc.)?
I'm considering adding the collection extension [1]. The content that needs to be shared could be added and maintained by the collection and daily/weekly pdf books could be distributed (possibly via Dropbox).
I welcome any thoughts on or suggestions. Thanks!
Regards, Bryan
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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Heff, ok, thanks then. It is propagated as "stable" at it's MediaWiki page...
Martin
út 26. 12. 2017 v 23:39 odesílatel chris tharp tharpenator@gmail.com napsal:
Martin,
A quick note: The Lockdown extension has not worked since Mediawiki 1.26. If I’m not mistaken almost all the access restriction extensions no longer work (several of the older extensions, like Lockdown & SemanticACL, were good at access restrictions). The philosophy that a wiki must be totally open, regardless of the needs of many, especially Enterprise users, seems to have a firm hold on the mind-set of Mediawiki developers.
Sent from my iPad
On Dec 26, 2017, at 2:21 PM, Martin Urbanec martin.urbanec@wikimedia.cz
wrote:
Just a note, because it may not be clear from what I written above. This will require a) having the shared content public b) having the external users accounts on the wiki. I beleive that you was asked for account-removing because they should not have access to the entrie wiki, but only to limited subset of pages. The extension Lockdown allows you to accomplish such thing.
Martin
út 26. 12. 2017 v 23:17 odesílatel Martin Urbanec < martin.urbanec@wikimedia.cz> napsal:
Hello,
just a info: MediaWiki is not a CMS but a Wiki. This may be not 100% secure but it should work. You may want to have a look at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lockdown .
Best, Martin Urbanec (cs.wikipedia)
út 26. 12. 2017 v 22:39 odesílatel Bryan Hilderbrand
napsal:
Hi all,
I have a question that may be similar to G. Moko's post on December
19th
regarding "Dump of Recent Changes".
I have a private enterprise wiki that currently has some external users that have been granted read-only access. I have been asked to remove
these
external users from the wiki, but they need access to some of the
content.
What is the best way to handle this? Extensions? Separate wiki that automatically updates from the main using dumps (like G. Moko's post)
and
some filtering (flagged pages, etc.)?
I'm considering adding the collection extension [1]. The content that needs to be shared could be added and maintained by the collection and daily/weekly pdf books could be distributed (possibly via Dropbox).
I welcome any thoughts on or suggestions. Thanks!
Regards, Bryan
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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Yes, but the info box also states 1.23 - 1.26. So there is a version constraint for stable. This is however just a side note.
I believe the extension as such is "fixed" now however MediaWiki core has an issue since REL1_27 that makes it not working at a 100 percent. I am on my knees begging for a fix for a year now. However I am one of the very few so there is no real "pressure" apart from the fact that it is among the most popular extensions. Toi, toi, toi ... Sadly I am not able to propose a change-set myself since I lack the knowledge to do so.
Do not get me wrong: A) If one needs 100% only a separate wiki instance will help. B) Lockdown already covers a lot in most use cases in an acceptable manner so A was not required in most cases I have encountered so far.
Cheers Karsten
Am Dienstag, den 26.12.2017, 22:42 +0000 schrieb Martin Urbanec:
Heff, ok, thanks then. It is propagated as "stable" at it's MediaWiki page...
Martin
út 26. 12. 2017 v 23:39 odesílatel chris tharp <tharpenator@gmail.com
napsal:
Martin,
A quick note: The Lockdown extension has not worked since Mediawiki 1.26. If I’m not mistaken almost all the access restriction extensions no longer work (several of the older extensions, like Lockdown & SemanticACL, were good at access restrictions). The philosophy that a wiki must be totally open, regardless of the needs of many, especially Enterprise users, seems to have a firm hold on the mind-set of Mediawiki developers.
Sent from my iPad
On Dec 26, 2017, at 2:21 PM, Martin Urbanec <martin.urbanec@wikim edia.cz>
wrote:
Just a note, because it may not be clear from what I written above. This will require a) having the shared content public b) having the external users accounts on the wiki. I beleive that you was asked for account-removing because they should not have access to the entrie wiki, but only to limited subset of pages. The extension Lockdown allows you to accomplish such thing.
Martin
út 26. 12. 2017 v 23:17 odesílatel Martin Urbanec < martin.urbanec@wikimedia.cz> napsal:
Hello,
just a info: MediaWiki is not a CMS but a Wiki. This may be not 100% secure but it should work. You may want to have a look at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lockdown .
Best, Martin Urbanec (cs.wikipedia)
út 26. 12. 2017 v 22:39 odesílatel Bryan Hilderbrand
napsal:
Hi all,
I have a question that may be similar to G. Moko's post on December
19th
regarding "Dump of Recent Changes".
I have a private enterprise wiki that currently has some external users that have been granted read-only access. I have been asked to remove
these
external users from the wiki, but they need access to some of the
content.
What is the best way to handle this? Extensions? Separate wiki that automatically updates from the main using dumps (like G. Moko's post)
and
some filtering (flagged pages, etc.)?
I'm considering adding the collection extension [1]. The content that needs to be shared could be added and maintained by the collection and daily/weekly pdf books could be distributed (possibly via Dropbox).
I welcome any thoughts on or suggestions. Thanks!
Regards, Bryan
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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Hi all,
Thanks for all the responses. I suppose I'll try the Collection extension for now unless someone knows of a slick solution.
Martin, I agree about a Wiki not being a CMS and I'm not thrilled to be trying to limit access, but it's only a really small subset of the articles. I am running MW1.28 though, so it appears the Lockdown extension isn't available to me (it has been updated to show unmaintained vs. stable now, I'm guessing after someone read this thread).
Chris and John, I've found it to actually be a blessing that it isn't straightforward to provide discrete access control in an enterprise Wiki. If it were easy, what would the ideal lockdown strategy be? Engineering might propose one, R&D another, marketing a third. The fact that in general, for a private enterprise Wiki, everyone has to use the same "silo of information" ends up being a huge win for the company. At least in my experience :)
Thanks again! Bryan
On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 5:05 PM, kghbln mediawiki@kghoffmeyer.de wrote:
Yes, but the info box also states 1.23 - 1.26. So there is a version constraint for stable. This is however just a side note.
I believe the extension as such is "fixed" now however MediaWiki core has an issue since REL1_27 that makes it not working at a 100 percent. I am on my knees begging for a fix for a year now. However I am one of the very few so there is no real "pressure" apart from the fact that it is among the most popular extensions. Toi, toi, toi ... Sadly I am not able to propose a change-set myself since I lack the knowledge to do so.
Do not get me wrong: A) If one needs 100% only a separate wiki instance will help. B) Lockdown already covers a lot in most use cases in an acceptable manner so A was not required in most cases I have encountered so far.
Cheers Karsten
Am Dienstag, den 26.12.2017, 22:42 +0000 schrieb Martin Urbanec:
Heff, ok, thanks then. It is propagated as "stable" at it's MediaWiki page...
Martin
út 26. 12. 2017 v 23:39 odesílatel chris tharp <tharpenator@gmail.com
napsal:
Martin,
A quick note: The Lockdown extension has not worked since Mediawiki 1.26. If I’m not mistaken almost all the access restriction extensions no longer work (several of the older extensions, like Lockdown & SemanticACL, were good at access restrictions). The philosophy that a wiki must be totally open, regardless of the needs of many, especially Enterprise users, seems to have a firm hold on the mind-set of Mediawiki developers.
Sent from my iPad
On Dec 26, 2017, at 2:21 PM, Martin Urbanec <martin.urbanec@wikim edia.cz>
wrote:
Just a note, because it may not be clear from what I written above. This will require a) having the shared content public b) having the external users accounts on the wiki. I beleive that you was asked for account-removing because they should not have access to the entrie wiki, but only to limited subset of pages. The extension Lockdown allows you to accomplish such thing.
Martin
út 26. 12. 2017 v 23:17 odesílatel Martin Urbanec < martin.urbanec@wikimedia.cz> napsal:
Hello,
just a info: MediaWiki is not a CMS but a Wiki. This may be not 100% secure but it should work. You may want to have a look at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lockdown .
Best, Martin Urbanec (cs.wikipedia)
út 26. 12. 2017 v 22:39 odesílatel Bryan Hilderbrand
napsal:
Hi all,
I have a question that may be similar to G. Moko's post on December
19th
regarding "Dump of Recent Changes".
I have a private enterprise wiki that currently has some external users that have been granted read-only access. I have been asked to remove
these
external users from the wiki, but they need access to some of the
content.
What is the best way to handle this? Extensions? Separate wiki that automatically updates from the main using dumps (like G. Moko's post)
and
some filtering (flagged pages, etc.)?
I'm considering adding the collection extension [1]. The content that needs to be shared could be added and maintained by the collection and daily/weekly pdf books could be distributed (possibly via Dropbox).
I welcome any thoughts on or suggestions. Thanks!
Regards, Bryan
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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You could try DumpHTML and then have a chron task to copy the selected outputs to a area where areas can access them
On 30 December 2017 at 09:40, Bryan Hilderbrand bryanh@tegnosis.wiki wrote:
Hi all,
Thanks for all the responses. I suppose I'll try the Collection extension for now unless someone knows of a slick solution.
Martin, I agree about a Wiki not being a CMS and I'm not thrilled to be trying to limit access, but it's only a really small subset of the articles. I am running MW1.28 though, so it appears the Lockdown extension isn't available to me (it has been updated to show unmaintained vs. stable now, I'm guessing after someone read this thread).
Chris and John, I've found it to actually be a blessing that it isn't straightforward to provide discrete access control in an enterprise Wiki. If it were easy, what would the ideal lockdown strategy be? Engineering might propose one, R&D another, marketing a third. The fact that in general, for a private enterprise Wiki, everyone has to use the same "silo of information" ends up being a huge win for the company. At least in my experience :)
Thanks again! Bryan
On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 5:05 PM, kghbln mediawiki@kghoffmeyer.de wrote:
Yes, but the info box also states 1.23 - 1.26. So there is a version constraint for stable. This is however just a side note.
I believe the extension as such is "fixed" now however MediaWiki core has an issue since REL1_27 that makes it not working at a 100 percent. I am on my knees begging for a fix for a year now. However I am one of the very few so there is no real "pressure" apart from the fact that it is among the most popular extensions. Toi, toi, toi ... Sadly I am not able to propose a change-set myself since I lack the knowledge to do so.
Do not get me wrong: A) If one needs 100% only a separate wiki instance will help. B) Lockdown already covers a lot in most use cases in an acceptable manner so A was not required in most cases I have encountered so far.
Cheers Karsten
Am Dienstag, den 26.12.2017, 22:42 +0000 schrieb Martin Urbanec:
Heff, ok, thanks then. It is propagated as "stable" at it's MediaWiki page...
Martin
út 26. 12. 2017 v 23:39 odesílatel chris tharp <tharpenator@gmail.com
napsal:
Martin,
A quick note: The Lockdown extension has not worked since Mediawiki 1.26. If I’m not mistaken almost all the access restriction extensions no longer work (several of the older extensions, like Lockdown & SemanticACL, were good at access restrictions). The philosophy that a wiki must be totally open, regardless of the needs of many, especially Enterprise users, seems to have a firm hold on the mind-set of Mediawiki developers.
Sent from my iPad
On Dec 26, 2017, at 2:21 PM, Martin Urbanec <martin.urbanec@wikim edia.cz>
wrote:
Just a note, because it may not be clear from what I written above. This will require a) having the shared content public b) having the external users accounts on the wiki. I beleive that you was asked for account-removing because they should not have access to the entrie wiki, but only to limited subset of pages. The extension Lockdown allows you to accomplish such thing.
Martin
út 26. 12. 2017 v 23:17 odesílatel Martin Urbanec < martin.urbanec@wikimedia.cz> napsal:
Hello,
just a info: MediaWiki is not a CMS but a Wiki. This may be not 100% secure but it should work. You may want to have a look at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lockdown .
Best, Martin Urbanec (cs.wikipedia)
út 26. 12. 2017 v 22:39 odesílatel Bryan Hilderbrand
napsal:
> > Hi all, > > I have a question that may be similar to G. Moko's post on > December
19th
> > regarding "Dump of Recent Changes". > > I have a private enterprise wiki that currently has some > external users > that have been granted read-only access. I have been asked to > remove
these
> > external users from the wiki, but they need access to some of > the
content.
> > > What is the best way to handle this? Extensions? Separate > wiki that > automatically updates from the main using dumps (like G. > Moko's post)
and
> > some filtering (flagged pages, etc.)? > > I'm considering adding the collection extension [1]. The > content that > needs > to be shared could be added and maintained by the collection > and > daily/weekly pdf books could be distributed (possibly via > Dropbox). > > I welcome any thoughts on or suggestions. Thanks! > > Regards, > Bryan > > [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >
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Just echoing what Chris said below, although I do know of at least one exception. https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AccessControl%C2%A0still technically works with MediaWiki 1.26+, however it is known to be far from perfect at accomplishing its goal and to potentially have serious flaws that could breach privacy. Instead of using an extension like this, I suggest setting $wgGroupPermissions[‘*’][‘read’] = false and $wgGroupPermissions[‘user’][‘read’] = false in LocalSettings.php. Then define a new user group that you want to have read access to the wiki and grant the read right to that group, like so: $wgGroupPermissions[‘newgroupname’][‘read’] = true; Unfortunately, Chris is right that the MediaWiki developers don’t like partial access restrictions. Either it’s all open or it’s all closed. — Amanda
On Tuesday, December 26, 2017, 5:38 PM, chris tharp tharpenator@gmail.com wrote:
Martin,
A quick note: The Lockdown extension has not worked since Mediawiki 1.26. If I’m not mistaken almost all the access restriction extensions no longer work (several of the older extensions, like Lockdown & SemanticACL, were good at access restrictions). The philosophy that a wiki must be totally open, regardless of the needs of many, especially Enterprise users, seems to have a firm hold on the mind-set of Mediawiki developers.
Sent from my iPad
On Dec 26, 2017, at 2:21 PM, Martin Urbanec martin.urbanec@wikimedia.cz wrote:
Just a note, because it may not be clear from what I written above. This will require a) having the shared content public b) having the external users accounts on the wiki. I beleive that you was asked for account-removing because they should not have access to the entrie wiki, but only to limited subset of pages. The extension Lockdown allows you to accomplish such thing.
Martin
út 26. 12. 2017 v 23:17 odesílatel Martin Urbanec < martin.urbanec@wikimedia.cz> napsal:
Hello,
just a info: MediaWiki is not a CMS but a Wiki. This may be not 100% secure but it should work. You may want to have a look at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lockdown .
Best, Martin Urbanec (cs.wikipedia)
út 26. 12. 2017 v 22:39 odesílatel Bryan Hilderbrand bryanh@tegnosis.wiki napsal:
Hi all,
I have a question that may be similar to G. Moko's post on December 19th regarding "Dump of Recent Changes".
I have a private enterprise wiki that currently has some external users that have been granted read-only access. I have been asked to remove these external users from the wiki, but they need access to some of the content.
What is the best way to handle this? Extensions? Separate wiki that automatically updates from the main using dumps (like G. Moko's post) and some filtering (flagged pages, etc.)?
I'm considering adding the collection extension [1]. The content that needs to be shared could be added and maintained by the collection and daily/weekly pdf books could be distributed (possibly via Dropbox).
I welcome any thoughts on or suggestions. Thanks!
Regards, Bryan
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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Please note that the mediawiki devs have two positions, completely open, or completely closed wiki. Mediawiki was never intended to be a CMS which is why most access control extensions are hacks and work ok at best, and are not given as much scrutiny/review as other systems
On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 5:44 PM Amanda Quad amandaquad@yahoo.com wrote:
Just echoing what Chris said below, although I do know of at least one exception. https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AccessControl still technically works with MediaWiki 1.26+, however it is known to be far from perfect at accomplishing its goal and to potentially have serious flaws that could breach privacy. Instead of using an extension like this, I suggest setting $wgGroupPermissions[‘*’][‘read’] = false and $wgGroupPermissions[‘user’][‘read’] = false in LocalSettings.php. Then define a new user group that you want to have read access to the wiki and grant the read right to that group, like so: $wgGroupPermissions[‘newgroupname’][‘read’] = true; Unfortunately, Chris is right that the MediaWiki developers don’t like partial access restrictions. Either it’s all open or it’s all closed. — Amanda
On Tuesday, December 26, 2017, 5:38 PM, chris tharp tharpenator@gmail.com wrote:
Martin,
A quick note: The Lockdown extension has not worked since Mediawiki 1.26. If I’m not mistaken almost all the access restriction extensions no longer work (several of the older extensions, like Lockdown & SemanticACL, were good at access restrictions). The philosophy that a wiki must be totally open, regardless of the needs of many, especially Enterprise users, seems to have a firm hold on the mind-set of Mediawiki developers.
Sent from my iPad
On Dec 26, 2017, at 2:21 PM, Martin Urbanec martin.urbanec@wikimedia.cz
wrote:
Just a note, because it may not be clear from what I written above. This will require a) having the shared content public b) having the external users accounts on the wiki. I beleive that you was asked for account-removing because they should not have access to the entrie wiki, but only to limited subset of pages. The extension Lockdown allows you to accomplish such thing.
Martin
út 26. 12. 2017 v 23:17 odesílatel Martin Urbanec < martin.urbanec@wikimedia.cz> napsal:
Hello,
just a info: MediaWiki is not a CMS but a Wiki. This may be not 100% secure but it should work. You may want to have a look at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lockdown .
Best, Martin Urbanec (cs.wikipedia)
út 26. 12. 2017 v 22:39 odesílatel Bryan Hilderbrand
napsal:
Hi all,
I have a question that may be similar to G. Moko's post on December
19th
regarding "Dump of Recent Changes".
I have a private enterprise wiki that currently has some external users that have been granted read-only access. I have been asked to remove
these
external users from the wiki, but they need access to some of the
content.
What is the best way to handle this? Extensions? Separate wiki that automatically updates from the main using dumps (like G. Moko's post)
and
some filtering (flagged pages, etc.)?
I'm considering adding the collection extension [1]. The content that needs to be shared could be added and maintained by the collection and daily/weekly pdf books could be distributed (possibly via Dropbox).
I welcome any thoughts on or suggestions. Thanks!
Regards, Bryan
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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