On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:10:55 +1000 "Brianna Laugher" brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
Telstra is using MediaWiki, huh? Very cool! :)
Thanks Brianna, It was a one man (me) project which after I finished with our group got gobbled up by the corporate behemoth that all companies must endure.
Categories: Thank-you. Solved. You are a gem.
Q: Can you have closed user categories/groups?
Do you mean categories that only sysops can add items to? No. It's not clear what you're trying to ask.
Closed User Goups. We would like to force that only certain users (we don't mind selecting them manually or via LDAP) can view/add/edit a category.
This company has many groups(as most do) and it would not serve to reason to allow, for instance, a level one tech support to create/edit/view certain Human Resources or Legals documents/information/policy pages.
I am not talking about sysops. I think I am talking about segregating viewing/editing/adding privelidges in certain categories from individuals or groups.
I have looked at socialtext.com and they (google-esque blade rack. bleh) seem to be able to do this and this is based on mediawiki.
Since yesterday this has become a huge issue that I am highly concerned with. By the end of next week this will become unmanagable and the project will be shut down by my own hand which will be a great win for me professionally(although a personal dissapointment) but a loss for the company ?-|
Any ideas?
Regards, Wayne
On 4/19/07, Connolly, Wayne Wayne.Connolly@team.telstra.com wrote:
Since yesterday this has become a huge issue that I am highly concerned with. By the end of next week this will become unmanagable and the project will be shut down by my own hand which will be a great win for me professionally(although a personal dissapointment) but a loss for the company ?-|
Any ideas?
You may want to use custom namespaces rather than categories for this. Like Maybe HR:Pagename or Policy:Discrimination. There are extensions that allow groups to have different editing permissions by namespace I believe.
Judson [[:en:User:Cohesion]]
On 19/04/07, Connolly, Wayne Wayne.Connolly@team.telstra.com wrote:
Closed User Goups. We would like to force that only certain users (we don't mind selecting them manually or via LDAP) can view/add/edit a category.
This company has many groups(as most do) and it would not serve to reason to allow, for instance, a level one tech support to create/edit/view certain Human Resources or Legals documents/information/policy pages.
I am not talking about sysops. I think I am talking about segregating viewing/editing/adding privelidges in certain categories from individuals or groups.
MediaWiki does not support this.
Rob Church
On 19/04/07, Connolly, Wayne Wayne.Connolly@team.telstra.com wrote:
Q: Can you have closed user categories/groups?
Do you mean categories that only sysops can add items to? No. It's not clear what you're trying to ask.
Closed User Goups. We would like to force that only certain users (we don't mind selecting them manually or via LDAP) can view/add/edit a category.
This company has many groups(as most do) and it would not serve to reason to allow, for instance, a level one tech support to create/edit/view certain Human Resources or Legals documents/information/policy pages.
I am not talking about sysops. I think I am talking about segregating viewing/editing/adding privelidges in certain categories from individuals or groups.
Then probably MediaWiki, and probably wikis in general, are not the right tool for this.
As cool as they are, they work naturally best when everyone or almost everyone have the same editing and viewing rights. Twisting MW into unnatural contortions is not likely to be fun to program.
You could have separate wikis for each group, and control the login access to those wikis by these groups you mention.
Anyway that said, there are a LOT of extensions that try to give the kind of control you want. Check out http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Page_Access_Control_Extensions .
cheers Brianna
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