Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:37:00 -0400
From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] groups
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On 9/29/05, Benoit Brosseau <brosseaub(a)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.
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Rick DeNatale
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First let me apologies in advence for any typo since i am not a native
english speaker
second WOW if what you say is true its very wierd ... while i am new to
mediawiki i am not new to wikis. i have implemented wiki with 700 nurses
using pmwiki and its easy (well not really) to do groups and implement
ownership of pages so pepole can only edit a restricted set of pages. i
understand the wiki philosophy and i runed completely open wikis for
years but the probleme is that spam is getting so bad its rough to
manage. The content would get replace, new page get created with links
to porn site and while this is ok for most technology oriented pepole
because they know they can just rool back to the last good version its
confusing for the users and down right no acceptable in a school contexte.
i really like mediawiki but if it can support basic groups i will have
to convince them to switch to pmwiki or usemod or sommething that
support groups
thanks for your help