Resending this because it doesn't appear to have reached the archive. (I've got to figure out how to make these use the right address) ~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of The Gaiapedia, Wikia Graphical Entertainment Project, and Wiki-Tools.com Not theory, practice ^_^. http://central.wiki-tools.com <-- Main Wiki http://cabal.wiki-tools.com <-- Cabal Wiki (Pardon the Name) I just put up the permissions to demonstrate. I haven't gotten around to it, but someone else with little programming knowledge tried to create Extension:Cabal and failed. So I'm probably going to build a proper one which gives you a black screen with nothing but a login no matter what you do if you're not logged in. Though, my setup is a little more complex. We also have a Global Staff group setup via my Semi-Shared Permissions trick, and that also allows access to that restricted wiki in addition to the Cabal group, which I might make global later and use some trickery to hide it from view so that I can put a link to the cabal for cabal users only in one of the 2 sidebars.. Don't mind the skin, it's still being developed. And if you are wondering why there is a Smarty tag there, that's because the skins are what I call Smarty Based Universal skins. I'm using the smarty parser in combination with a number of my sharing tricks to create a few skins which work universally across whatever system I chose. Right now they are just part of MediaWiki, but soon they will be usable on our WordPress blog, and probably the CMSMadeSimple site. ~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of The Gaiapedia, Wikia Graphical Entertainment Project, and Wiki-Tools.com Brion Vibber wrote:

Dantman wrote: FYI, I didn't see an earlier version on the list nor on the newsgroup (via gmane gateway). Well, not being shy, I created an account for myself on central and logged in, then opened a browser window to cabal. On cabal I appear to be logged in (but I cannot log in) and I appear to have a user page, a user talk page, etc. But trying to view the user talk page, I get this: Permission error The action you have requested is limited to users in one of the groups staff, cabal. If I use a shared user database, will someone (a sysop or bureaucrat) have to do user registrations for the users? Currently, most of my users do this for themselves. Una

^_^ ya... I just turned off all permissions for non Staff/Caball users on the Cabal. (Though I intend to do something differently with Extension:Cabal) When you have a shared user Database, if you configure the cookies right then signing in on one wiki actually means signing in on all of the wiki at the same time. So using that method, you just give them permissions on the restricted wiki and they just half to sign in on the normal wiki (or on the restricted wiki if you have white listed the login page), and they will be logged in on the restricted wiki and able to access it. ~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of The Gaiapedia, Wikia Graphical Entertainment Project, and Wiki-Tools.com Platonides wrote: