[Mediawiki-l] Re: name space based restriction

[Chaitanya]

Rob Church <robchur at ...> writes:

> 
> MediaWiki is a wiki engine, and is therefore based around the open
> content, free-to-edit model. As such, there is no direct support for
> per-namespace restriction in the manner described.
> 
> However, this is a somewhat frequently asked question, and so I
> suggest you search both http://meta.wikimedia.org and
> http://www.mediawiki.org for "access restrictions" and the like, and
> see if anything useful comes up. This would likely be in the form of
> an extension.
> 
> Rob Church
> 
> On 11/11/05, Akondi Chaitanya <akondichaitanya at ...> wrote:
> > dear all
> > we are setting up an internal wiki for our company.
> > we want to enforce access restrictions.
> > I tried name space baswed restriction on 1.5.2
> > but it doesnt work.
> > Please suggest what to do.
> > thanks in advance
> > chaitanya
> >
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Thanks for that Rob Church

I am aware of the MW's philosophy.

I have succesfully enforced name space based restriction using MW 1.5.1

But since it was not enough, I added the extension that I found here

http://blog.epistemographer.com/?p=238

Then I customized it such that I can restrict not just users but also groups.

Then I also wrote some more code to manage the pages so that we can batch update
the rights.

All the credit goes to the communtiy.

Kudos to the community