On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@wikimedia.org wrote:
One additional extension that needs someone to update for MW 1.17, put it on mediawiki.org, and do a little maintenance:
http://www.epistemographer.com/2005/05/04/page-by-page-authentication-in-med...
Judging by the comments, people do want this functionality, so it would be used, even if not on WMF wikis.
If we did such a thing, it would probably need more core support to function properly. Per-page permissions are not something MW supports and extensions trying to do it do so at their own risk.
I don't think MW core needs this sort of functionality, but it will probably need more hook points to do it properly.
-Chad