On Wed, 2004-10-11 at 15:33 -0500, Delirium wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
On Nov 10, 2004, at 2:24 AM, vic wrote:
A general use wiki with mediawiki engine would be
great, ( i am using
it to developments
documentation) ... but it lacks features like authentication
What does 'authentication' mean to you? Normally this means a password
check to ensure that someone logging in as a particular user in fact
is that user. Obviously this is something we already have... ;)
One that came up for me is a feature to not allow new accounts to become
active without an administrator approving them first. When combined
with disallowing IP-user edits, this would allow MediaWiki to be used as
an internal collaboration platform for not-open-to-the-public groups.
Allowing only logged-in users to even read pages would be a nice feature
in some such cases as well.
....
There is a distinction between authentication and authorization.
Authentication is being who you say you are, and authorization is
permission to do whatever is in question. I don't know how much of a
distinction mediawiki makes between these two, but if we are talking
about it we may as well be using the right terms.