Hi,

I am looking for a "good" solution to limit the access to pages in the "Special" namespace to logged in users only (except Userlogin of course, otherwise no one would ever be able to login and see the other pages in that namespace :)).

A "good" solution would not be something of a dirty hack in the code of Mediawiki or apache configuration, but it would be something like a properly-coded extension or even a built-in feature of Mediawiki.

I am planning to deploy a Mediawiki install for a website that is being maintained by a community of users, but of which special pages like the history of edits, should only be disclosed to this who are allowed to edit the pages (non-anonymous users).

I am aware this is not specifically what Mediawiki was written for, and I understand this one of the reasons this feature is not or not yet in Mediawiki available. However, I presume, I am not the only one looking for something like this.

Of course I did search Google, this lists's archives and the Mediawiki site to find me an answer. The answers I have found until now seem all to be in one way or another "a dirty hack" (an unmaintained extension, clumsy hack of Mediawiki code, etc). I do not mind creating a solution myself, but I want to make sure I am not overlooking something.

Thank you in advance for your help,