[Mediawiki-l] Re: groups

[Didier Courtaud]

You can have a look at : http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1924

There is a patch to do someting like you are looking for !

Hope it can help

Didier Courtaud

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 04:00:52PM -0400, Benoit Brosseau wrote:
> 
> >Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:37:00 -0400
> >From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale at gmail.com>
> >Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] groups
> >To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> >	<mediawiki-l at wikimedia.org>
> >Message-ID: <deb2337a050929123775c93531 at mail.gmail.com>
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> >
> >On 9/29/05, Benoit Brosseau <brosseaub at mancomm.ca> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>ok i am new to this so bare with me
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >If you want to strip, feel free, but I'll keep my clothes on thanks.
> >
> >  
> >
> >>i have a class that i want to use mediawiki for
> >>
> >>i have 4 groups of students
> >>
> >>how do i set it up so :
> >>
> >>anyone can read all the content
> >>
> >>only members of the group can edit the group pages
> >>
> >>only members can leave comments
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >You really can't. It sounds like you are looking for a contents
> >management system and not a wiki.
> >
> >Mediawiki (like Ward Cunningham's wikiwiki web, and all the wikis in
> >between is designed around the philosophy that anyone can edit, and
> >everyone will police the result. It only supports very broad sets of
> >capabilities for users, and doesn't really support a permissions model
> >on individual artifacts.
> >
> >Such questions come up here often, because users always want to warp
> >software to meet their own ends. But as neat as mediawiki is as a wiki
> >implementation, it's really not a good base for a restrictive content
> >management system.
> >
> >--
> >Rick DeNatale
> >
> >Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site
> >http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/
> >
> >  
> >
> First let me apologies in advence for any typo since i am not a native 
> english speaker
> 
> second WOW if what you say is true its very wierd ... while i am new to 
> mediawiki i am not new to wikis. i have implemented wiki with 700 nurses 
> using pmwiki and its easy (well not really) to do groups and implement 
> ownership of pages so pepole can only edit a restricted set of pages. i 
> understand the wiki philosophy and i runed completely open wikis for 
> years but the probleme is that spam is getting so bad its rough to 
> manage. The content would get replace, new page get created with links 
> to porn site and while this is ok for most technology oriented pepole 
> because they know they can just rool back to the last good version its 
> confusing for the users and down right no acceptable in a school contexte.
> 
> i really like mediawiki but if it can support basic groups i will have 
> to convince them to switch to pmwiki or usemod or sommething that 
> support groups
> 
> thanks for your help

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