[Foundation-l] Wikinews - not so much a state of the wiki

[Thomas Dalton]

On 06/12/2007, Brion Vibber <brion at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Thomas Dalton wrote:
> >> Doesn't MediaWiki allow access control per namespace?
> >
> > By default, no.
>
> Actually, yes. I don't know how much I'd trust it for limited *read*
> access, but it probably works. Mostly. :)

Really? How? The only per namespace restrictions I know of is
$wgNamespaceProtection or whatever it's called, but AFAIK, that just
stops editing, not reading.