Hi, I really like mediawiki, but there's one thing I cannot do easily, it seems, so I'm looking for advice. I need to be able to partition the collection of pages into areas that are private and semi-private and public. I know there are a variety of access control extensions, but they all seem rather complex compared to how, say, foswiki, handles it. I know about namespaces, and categories, and subpages, but they all seem like so much more work than just setting up "webs" in foswiki. I need to provide "private" areas where only individuals can get access; I also need to separate content into a few large collections that won't overlap by default. No matter whether I consider namespaces, or categories, or subpages, there's always a lot of extra work needed to ensure new pages are properly named or categorized. The names of the pages themselves seem to get longer than I want, because of specifying namespace or parent-page names; or I have to ensure my user community always puts in the right categories, which is a burden on them. There are serious advantages to using mediawiki, but this partitioning thing is a dealbreaker. And many of the extensions seem to require more hand-holding than I really want to provide. So, given this, does anyone have any advice for me? Cheers. Fil Salustri -- Filippo A. Salustri, Ph.D., P.Eng. Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Ryerson University 350 Victoria St, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada Tel: 416/979-5000 ext 7749 Fax: 416/979-5265 Email: salustri(a)ryerson.ca http://deseng.ryerson.ca/~fil/ <http://deseng.ryerson.ca/%7Efil/>