Hello again ...
I am currently working on a simple extension to add security features
on "per page" schema.
Its functional but has very flaws of security, it works in all pages
and an editor must/can create a tag like :
<security>
user=coff,admin
groups=sysadmin
</security>
and the users listed are the only ones that can read the page .
The extension info and download are on
http://www.wickle.com/wikis/index.php/Security_extension
I would like why mediawiki developers are closed to new ideas based on
security, i think this kind of extensions are great for the wiki
community (although its not useful for wikipedia sites) I dont want a
CMS, i dont want to change the wiki, I like mediawiki, but some
answers at the IRC about this implementation are very frustrating, and
other answers are greats .
regards
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:18:48 +0100, Rowan Collins
<rowan.collins(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 07:11:58 +0000, Victor Fariña
<wickle(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello ...
I am wondering if there are any plans or discussions about enhanced
the security of the wiki in a user/groups based, for example to let an
editor protect his pages from view/modify other users that the ones he
designate (with a special tag or something) ... I think that this is a
feature not very useful at wikipedia sites, but yes on my wikis used
mainly for projects development .
Yes, a proper user-rights system is among the most requested features
from non-wikimedia MediaWiki users, and there was recently some
progress towards implementing it. I'm not sure how far it got, but
certainly some code was checked in a few weeks ago based on the
concept of assigning users to groups, and associating rights for
different pages to different groups. You might want to glance through
these threads in the mailing list archives:
*
http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2004-September/024982.html
[quite old, fairly abstract discussion]
*
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2004-September/025594.html
[the thread relating to the checked in user_groups code]
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