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Cheers, Huib

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com Date: 2008/10/30 Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Private areas in thre Wiki To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:15 AM, javi bueno malagutidomp@hotmail.com wrote:

Hi, I am trying to know, how to do a PRIVATE article in a wiki. A PRIVATE article is an article which it only can be watched by the creator ( In general , not by all ). Anybody knows how to do it?. Is there any feature in the mediawiki software or in any extension to do it?.

Please see:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access

Quoting:

"If you need per-page or partial page access restrictions, you are advised to install an appropriate content management package. MediaWiki was not written to provide per-page access restrictions, and almost all hacks or patches promising to add them will likely have flaws somewhere . . .

"MediaWiki is designed for two basic access modes:

1. Everyone can view every single page on the wiki (with the possible exception of a few special pages). This is the mode used by Wikipedia and its sister projects. 2. Anonymous users can only view the Main Page and login page, and cannot edit any page. This is basically the same as the above, in terms of technical implementation (just an extra check for every page view), which is why it exists. This is the mode of operation used by certain private wikis such as those used by various Wikimedia committees.

"If you intend to have different view permissions than that, MediaWiki is not designed for your usage. (See bug 1924.) Data is not necessarily clearly delineated by namespace, page name, or other criteria, and there are a lot of leaks you'll have to plug if you want to make it so (see security issues with authorization extensions for a sample). Other wiki software may be more suitable for your purpose."

The page also contains the ways you can attempt to contort MediaWiki into doing something like what you want, but you're not advised to use MediaWiki for this purpose. It's not designed for it and it will much more of a pain to do it than you're expecting, guaranteed.

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