[Mediawiki-l] MediWiki ACL

[Maurice Rabb]

Dear Halah,

I was able to do exactly the same thing by using the patch described  
on meta.wikipedia's Hidden_pages page.  Check the link below in the  
following thread.

It worked like a charm.

Good luck!

Maurice



Begin forwarded message:
> From: Maurice Rabb <WikiAdmin at PersonalBacon.com>
> Date: December 18, 2005 2:15:12 CST
> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki- 
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> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Userspaces and groups permissions
> Reply-To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki- 
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>
> Dear Sy Ali,
>
> I had the same problem until I noticed that there is a link to a  
> patch at bug 1924, embedded in the Possible_solution (Namespace- 
> Based Restriction) section of Hidden Pages.
>
> 	http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1924
>
> I modified the wiki so that it is more obvious.  Check out:
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hidden_pages#Possible_solution_. 
> 28Namespace-Based_Restriction.29


On Dec 18, 2005, at 15:49, Halah Hassan wrote:

> HI,
>
> I need some help in setting up access control list for users. What  
> i am
> trying to implement is a bit more than what MediaWiki 1.5.3 supports.
>
> Our company has a number of different business units, each of which  
> wants to
> have its own restricted area on the wiki that is only accessible by  
> the
> users in that specific business unit.
>
> What i need to implement is as follows:
>
> Groups - each group has a number of people in it ( this i have done)
>
> Then i want to create pages that belong to a group and if the pages  
> are
> restricted then they are only visible to the members of the group and
> restricted to other users.
>
> I have managed to create namespaces for the differnet business  
> units we have
> and have done groups for each business unit. But i do not know how to
> restrict pages of a name space to a certain group only???
>
> Anyone done anything similar? or have any ideas of how i can  
> implement this?
>
> thanks
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