[Mediawiki-l] Blacklist pages from viewing?

[Tor Bjornrud]

Hey all,

My original question was posed on my blog. 
http://brainscat.com/archives/2004/08/04/mediawiki-permissions
Hopefully, somebody knows an answer... :)

> This is a plea for help regarding the MediaWiki permissions model. I 
> spent the majority of all last night looking for a way to have an open 
> wiki with certain pages that weren’t viewable by anyone except sysops. 
> I know you can lock a page from editing, but I need certain pages to 
> be invisible.
>
> The closest I could find was a whitelist scheme. For my purposes 
> though, the whitelist scheme would be far too hard to update, as my 
> number of public pages is far greater than private pages and 
> maintaining a whitelist would be too time consuming.
>
> Are there ways to do one of the following?
>
>     * Namespace the default set of documents and whitelist them, while 
> creating a different namespace for the private pages?
>     * Manage a blacklist of pages? Or blacklist a namespace?
>
> Any answer I find will be posted here and on MediaWiki for posterity, 
> and will be greatly appreciated.

Best,
~Tor