On 9/29/05, Benoit Brosseau brosseaub@mancomm.ca wrote:

ok i am new to this so bare with me

If you want to strip, feel free, but I'll keep my clothes on thanks.

i have a class that i want to use mediawiki for

i have 4 groups of students

how do i set it up so :

anyone can read all the content

only members of the group can edit the group pages

only members can leave comments

You really can't. It sounds like you are looking for a contents management system and not a wiki.

Mediawiki (like Ward Cunningham's wikiwiki web, and all the wikis in between is designed around the philosophy that anyone can edit, and everyone will police the result. It only supports very broad sets of capabilities for users, and doesn't really support a permissions model on individual artifacts.

Such questions come up here often, because users always want to warp software to meet their own ends. But as neat as mediawiki is as a wiki implementation, it's really not a good base for a restrictive content management system.

-- Rick DeNatale

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