On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@wikimedia.org wrote:
In response to this review, I've suggested to the author of the page-by-page authentication extension update the page on his site to mark it deprecated, or remove it, and warn people not to use it. Thanks all.
Just a note that I think our stance on per-page access restrictions has always been: "Do this at your own risk. This is not supported and will probably never be. We suggest you use another piece of software if you really need this." MediaWiki really isn't designed to be a content management system with very granular access settings, which is why we don't officially support it.
You might want to point out these pages to him too: * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access#Restrict_viewing_of_certain_specific_pages * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Security_issues_with_authorization_extensions