Hi all !

After looking for many solutions, I have found the one coming from Nick Kossifidis available at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1924 which is exactly the one I was looking for !

His patch allows to restrict sub-regions of the wiki to a "user right" which can be assigned to a user group. For instance ( inside LocalSettings.php ) :

1 ) create a new namespace

$wgExtraNamespaces = array(100 => "Sysopspace", 101 => "Sysopspace_Talk");

2 ) Assign it a user right :

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['namespaceGrp1'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['namespaceGrp2'] = true;

3 ) then restrict the namespace for the desired right

$wgRestrictedNamespaces = array(100 => "namespaceGrp1", 101 => "namespaceGrp2");

All these steps can be repeated as may times as you need !

After that, you can organize your wiki by creating customized namespaces and restricting their access and MW becomes a true CMS solution !

Thanks to Nick and hope it will be integrated in the final 1.5 version of Mediawiki

DC

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:36:02AM -0400, Gregory Szorc wrote:

Currently, there are two places where MediaWiki handles permissions.

1. At the user level in User.php. MediaWiki assigns generic

permissions like read, edit, move, etc. (See DefaultSettings.php for a list)

2. At the page level in Title.php (see the UserCan function around

line 900). MediaWiki checks whether a user has permissions for a selected page. In order for the user to have edit permissions on article Foo, the user must first have the edit permission at the user level and edit permissions at the article level. However, permissions at the article level seem to be non-existent.

The new permission system in 1.5 only seems to apply to users and groups, not to articles. As you can see from the UserCan function, some limitations are hard-imposed based on namespace, but these aren't customizable without editing the MediaWiki code base. If you want to start a hack on the permissions system, this is the place to start looking. Also, individual pages can have specific restrictions put on them (see page.page_restrictions in the database), but this layout is not desirable for a CMS (a whole new table for this field is desirable). If you want to hack MediaWiki to be a true CMS, some more major changes to the permissions system are necessary.

Greg

On Aug 9, 2005, at 9:30 AM, Didier Courtaud wrote:

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Hi

I am a newbie to Mediawiki and I apologize if this question has already been posted to this list but I did not see it in the archives !

I have just installed Mediawiki 1.5 beta 4 since I wanted to test the new permissions sytem of this release to make an Intranet CMS !

I try with success to disable the access for anonymous users, to create groups of users, ....

But I have not understood if it is possible to make thinks like this :

Let say we have two groups of users named G1 and G2 and a set of articles named A1 to An

What I want to do is to say that users from the G1 group can access ( read and/or write ) to articles A1 to A100 , that uers from the group G2 can access articles A101 to A200 and that users from the both groups can access to articles A201 to An

I have seen the patch made to create a restrict group but :

• it does not yet work with the version 1.5 of MediaWiki
• it is not sufficient because it only creates a group restrict

and it clearily not sufficient to make what I want to make

Does anyone can help me ?

Thanks by advance

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