Rob Church schreef:
On 12/02/07, Alex Powell alexp@exscien.com wrote:
I noticed the SVN tables.sql now has a permissions table. Dare I dream that per page permissioning is on the way? Is the ethos of the wikipedia changing, or has some money been thrown into the development? Is it likely to be in 1.10, or a few versions away?
No, we've just split off page editing permissions (for protection) into a new table, and introduced a few columns in advance, to facilitate future features such as expiring protection. This was done at the same time as cascading protection was introduced.
I am not aware of plans to introduce per-page access permissions to the software beyond anything we already have, at this time. MediaWiki is a wiki engine, not a content management system.
Rob Church
Hoi, MediaWiki is a versatile tool. Gartner wrote at some stage: "Knowledge management became affordable thanks to the MediaWiki boys". The point being, yes it is a wiki engine at its core, it is however used in many settings. There have been several requests for per-page access permissions. There have been implementations of this. They just did not make it into the MediaWiki SVN. This is a shame because as a consequence you have a fork. Forking is really unproductive. With some regularity the same issue raises its ugly head again; often resulting in a new fork. Thanks, GerardM