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.
At the moment I implement this with .htaccess and a password, but that's
non-ideal, because there's one global password for access to the wiki,
which makes it easier for that one password to get leaked and less easy
to control. It also means that if I want different users to have
different accesses, I have to set up completely separate wikis in
separate directories, and a user with access to two of them has to
remember two different wiki-access passwords. If it were integrated
with the user system it'd be cleaner, at least for my purposes.
Of course, I haven't complained (until now, I suppose) because I'm not
(currently) offering to code it. =]
-Mark