blacklist? Vs whitelist - Wikitech-l

23 Nov 2007

Hello

I am using mediawiki 1.9.3 and 
I have set up a wiki with a lot of restrictions.
All articles can only be edited by the administrator and even most of
that articles can be read by anonymous users, they are a dozen
articles which can only be read by  registered users. 

In order to achieve that, I have the following configuration.
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;	
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['edit'] = true; 
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false;
$wgWhitelistRead = array(":Main Page",":Article1");   

Now since there are far more articles which should be read anonymously
I find this solution not very comfortable, since I have to add every
new article into the white list.

It would fit my needs much better if there where a blacklist in which
I add the article not to be read anonymously.

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = true;
$wgBlacklistNoRead = array(":ForbiddenArticle1");

Will there be such a feature in the future?

thanks

Uwe Brauer