On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Neil Kandalgaonkar <neilk(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I don't believe anybody has successfully done this
for MediaWiki, and to
my knowledge this is would be difficult to impossible. Our backend
storage has to implement SQL in some way.
What about LDAP? It's used for authentication anyway, and it'd open
the way to block users from editing,reading etc. certain namespaces or
articles totally fine-grained... simply make a sub-element
"userWriteBlock: cn=foobar,dc=en,dc=wikipedia,dc=org" to an article /
NS entry you don't want a certain user to be able to edit.
Files could also be stored in a LDAP daemon, though this DOES suck for
anyone trying to edit the LDAP tree by hand.
Marco