[Mediawiki-l] Restricting pages to certain users

[Nancy McGough]

On 15 Jan 2005 Brion Vibber (brion at pobox.com) wrote:
> On Jan 15, 2005, at 9:30 AM, Tony Linde wrote:
>> On that point, is it possible to allow unregistered users to add
>> comments while restricting *editing* the page/discussion to registered 
>> users? If not, is there any other way to allow unregistered users to 
>> comment?
>
> Not unless you code it.

I am also interested in doing this type of thing. Here's a 
possible alternate solution: Is it possible to have one set of 
registered users who can edit pages and another set of registered 
users (probably a superset of the previous set) who can add 
comments?

Here's a scenario where I'd like to be able to do this. I've been 
editing my Procmail Quick Start, which is in my sig, for more 
than 10 years. I don't want anyone else editing it. But I do want 
to put it in the Infinite Ink wiki and I do want people to 
comment on it. And then I'll incorporate the comments myself. I 
know this is not following the wiki spirit. I plan to have some 
pages that will very much be in the wiki spirit, just not that 
particular page.

I think it would be very useful if MediaWiki supported these type 
of traditionally edited pages.

Thank you,
Nancy
  planning to convert Infinite Ink to a MediaWiki wiki in 2005

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