On 09/03/07, P. Birken pbirken@gmail.com wrote:
2007/3/8, Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com:
One very often requested functionality outside the Wikimedia fold is to use user groups to limit/control editing and viewing of pages (perhaps based on namespace). My point, is to just keep that and other possible uses - even those we never plan to use in Wikimedialand - in mind.
The possibility that IPs see the last sighted version, while logged in users see the current one is part of the proposal. Otherwise, what I like about open Source is that the people outside of Wikimedialand can just code if they need it so much :-)
I think mav was suggesting that we use the opportunity of all these changes to also change the current system of very general usertype priv modification ($wgGroupPermissions) to one with a great deal more specificity (and, well, a wiki interface) - e.g. number of (views/edits/deletes/protects/moves) in a (time unit) that a given (IP, usertype, user, user of a certain type) can make to (a particular page/namespace/wiki).
Not sure if that's beyond the scope of this project, though; certainly, it would be a quite bit of work to do, even if it is a feature some stakeholders might like.
Yours,